Sunday, March 11, 2012

Romeo & Juliet - Queen Mab: why I don't like her. (if she was real)

  The short tale that Mercutio told Romeo was about Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife. She is smaller agate stone. Her chariot was an empty hazelnut that had long spider legs as part of the wheels and her wagoner was a gnat. She was a very tiny fairy. He was talking about what she does and how she acts. I personally didn't like Queen Mab. In the text is says that she gave blisters to ladies who dream of kissing. That's not something a nice person/mythical creature would do.
  Also, she gives soldiers dreams of cutting foreign throats. I highly doubt that the soldiers like to dream that. It's kind of disturbing. I mean, they already have to deal with the reality, but to dream it makes everything worse. Now, she's making them re-live it. Over and over again until they snap. That's why soldiers go crazy. It's because Queen Mab takes her anger out on other people, which is kind of the definition of bullying.
  When you dream it feels so real. Like, it doesn't even seem like it isn't reality. Dreaming is one of the scariest things to experience because you can't control it. You can't control what's going to happen next. All you can do is hope that Queen Mab will take it easy on you. Hope that she doesn't make you re-live reality. Queen Mab makes dreaming a scary place, and that's why I don't like her.
   

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