Juliet:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in
Shakespeare's lyrical tale of "star-cross'd" lovers. They are doomed
from the start as members of two warring families. Here Juliet tells
Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless convention, and that
she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the Montague name
and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for Juliet,
rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his)
father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short
line encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.
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