Romeo and Juliet
What is the meaning of this Shakespeare quote: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet."?
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Juliet muses about the fact that Romeo is a Montague. She questions why being a Montague is such a bad thing. She questions that a name does not define a person or thing. She reasons that a rose smells the same no matter what it is called.