The overall message suggested in both texts is that dreams can influence how we feel and act. In the fable, the king's son's fear of the dream leads to a series of events that ultimately result in his demise, showing how his actions are shaped by his anxiety over the dream. In "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo expresses a sense of foreboding related to his dreams, suggesting that they are tied to fate and his emotions. Both texts highlight the significant impact that dreams, whether literal or metaphorical, can have on individuals' thoughts and actions.
Reread the fable and the excerpt from Romeo and Juliet. What overall message is suggested in both texts?
A king had a dream that his son would be killed by a llon. Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adormed its walls with life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a bon. When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: "O you most detestable of animalst Through a lying dream of my father's. I am shut up on your account in this palace? With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion But one of the tree's prickles pierced his finger. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later.
ROMEO
I dreamt a dream tonight MERCUTIO And so did L ROMED Well, what was yours? MERCUTIO That dreamers often lie. ROMEO in bed asleep while they do dream things true.
ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace.
Thou talk'st of nothing.
MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north And, being angered, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
BENVOLIO
This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves.
Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
ROMEO
I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
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You should always follow your dreams for success
Our dreams never reveal the truth
Dreams are only the products of our imagination
Dreams can influence how we feel and act
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