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Post date: Mar 17, 2017 6:43:44 PM
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
These are probably the most famous words of the play during the balcony scene. Juliet is unaware that Romeo is below in the orchard. She asks why Romeo must be a Montague, the son of her family’s greatest enemy (“wherefore” means “why,” not “where”). Still unaware of Romeo’s presence, she asks him to deny his family for her love. She adds, however, that if he will not, she will deny her family in order to be with him if he merely tells her that he loves her. Her love for him overrides her family’s hatred for the Montague name. She says that if Romeo were not called “Romeo” or “Montague,” he would still be the person she loves. “What’s in a name?” she asks. “That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet”.
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