Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

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

Romeo And Juliet          Act II, Scene i, Line 75

Well, there you have it. Today’s Totally Random Line picked totally randomly. I suppose we were bound to hit this, or maybe To be, or not to be, sooner or later. Well, today is that sooner or later, so should we take a look?

Remember, wherefore means why, it has nothing to do with where. Why are you Romeo, she’s asking. Actually, she doesn’t really have a problem with the name Romeo so much; it’s his last name of Montague that’s the kicker. It’s just another case of two factions, in this case families, that hate each other just because of which faction they’re born into. That should resonate, unless you’re living under a rock somewhere. But of course, in this story Will has these two lovers rising above the ridiculousness of factional hate, so at least that’s nice. Well, it doesn't really work out all that well, but let's not go there right now.

I'm not sure what else to say about this famous, totally random line. I guess maybe nothing, other...

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

As soon as Mr. Ham-it-up heard that we were doing Romeo and Juliet he decided he wanted to act out his favorite scene.

No, no Mojo, wherefore art thou doing the scene at the end of the play where Romeo goes belly up. You're on the wrong scene!

Oh well, I guess it's the only part he knows. What a piece of work this guy is.