ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -During the balcony scene Juliet says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title."

Detailed explanation-2: -Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir. But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” So declares Juliet as she laments the name of her beloved in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The fact is, today there are numerous varieties of ornamental rose that produce little or no fragrance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare famously wrote in Hamlet, “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” His point is that each experience presents an infinite number of interpretations. It’s your interpretation of each event that determines whether it was positive or negative.