The_Queen_Mab_Speech

The Queen Mab Speech Queen Mab Speech Shakespeare uses Mercutios’ fantastical Queen Mab speech to foreshadow future events in the play. Romeo is very affected by the speech because it is he who has strong desires. Mercutios speech is about Queen Mab who is the mid-wife or the creator of desires. Queen Mab comes in your dreams and gives you your desires. When you desire too much she makes you suffer and pay the consequences. Romeo has strong desires for a storybook love and for a girl named Roselyn. Romeo feels that he will have to pay the consequence of death for his desires: L115 “ I fear too early for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with the nights revels, and expire the term of despised life closed in my breast by vile forfeit of untimely death but he romeo, desires, speech, death, consequence, queen, pay, mab, future, yet, untimely, strong, stars, shall, play, mercutios, love, hanging, feels, fearful, end, early, desire, date, consequences, bitterly, begin, vile, very, true, term, suicide, suffers, suffer, strongly