Queens and Dreams, Real and Ideal "A dream is a wish your heart makes," according to Cinderella. Are dreams and fairytales an idealistic notion, or are they actually conceivable? In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's best companion, Mercutio makes a speech reflecting upon the essence of dreams and fantasy. Basically, it provides a brief comic relief through its mocking tone towards Romeo's latest infatuation. Romeo is obsessed with Rosaline who barely knows of his …showed first 75 words of 1375 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1375 total…ideal, yet he begins to incorporate dreams and how people feel about them, and to him, all this is ideal. Yet, it is real, and that is explained by Isaac Asimov, that however surreal or artificial dreaming may be, it always returns to being real. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare idealism and reality are struggling against one another as they strive to see which one is the explanation of the monologue by Mercutio.