Staff General 0 We here at Door Shakespeare struggle to bring each and every single of our site visitors with the information they are looking for – Shakespeare-related, of course. And today we decided to tell you a few things about the meanings behind some of the most important lines in his creations. For instance, let us begin our brief, but interesting journey with Romeo and Juliet’s passionate adventure. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” This is Juliet’s line when she is telling Rome that a name is nothing but a name and it is hence a convention with no meaning behind it. She declares her love and tells him she loves the person who is actually wearing the “Montague” name, and not the name itself, or the family it comes from. “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.” This is probably the most famous saying when it comes to Shakespeare and it has been inserted into a large number of daily expressions. Hamlet does not just ask whether one should live or die, but he makes a clear distinctions between the state of “being” and opposite. Being means experimenting a passive state, suffering, tasting a living death, while dying is seen as one of life’s actions, dealing with a sea of troubles. And speaking of such deep meanings, here is a brief story about luck and misfortunes we believe you are also going to find interesting.