What’s in a Name?

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What's in a Name?

Have you ever thought've what a name really is? Name is an empty word simply made up of four letters. The word is empty until you fill it with meaning. The person makes the name, which is when the name is whole. The name is just what the person is called, not what the person is. If you take the name away from the person, you still have all the great qualities of that person, nothing is different, nothing has changed; but if you take the person away from the name you have nothing there but four letters.

"Tis but they name that is my enemy, Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet were bound apart by their name, a simple name. In the quote above, Juliet expresses how it is only their name that keeps them apart. They wanted to be free from the boundaries that their parents had established for them, but they were always stuck in their predestined groups, never able to break loose. When they died, it was their final cry for freedom, to have people accept them as Romeo and Juliet and not Capulets and Montagues.
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"If he died, he was Andy. He was not a Royal. He was simply Andy, and he was dead. And he wondered suddenly if the Guardians who had ambushed him and knifed him had ever once realized he was Andy? Had they known that he was Andy, or had they simply known that he was a Royal wearing a purple silk jacket? Had they stabbed him, Andy, or had they only stabbed the jacket and the title, and what good was the title if you were dying?" In the story, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, the main character, Andy ...

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