Why do people say what's there in a name when name is so important for all, so important that they never want others to forget it....?
2007-12-18 21:20:20 · 7 answers · asked by Sid 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
When your family name is preventing you from getting your swerve on, I suppose it's not as important. As for me, my own name is important to me; even though I'd smell the same if I had a different name, I've bonded with my current one and I don't think I'd refuse it any time soon.
2007-12-18 21:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by Nermal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, what's there in a name? Seems more like he's asking a question if you take it out it's context and read it alone.
A name is merely a symbol for something else; is not a rose still as sweet if called by any other name?
I do agree, that if you called a rose a cactus, and that had been what it was originally called, we would have found that the object cactus would be a red or white hued flower with prickly thorns and fragrant stamen.
However, due to the fact that we called the first one a rose, so hence it was called that; likewise of the cactus.
A name is merely a mark, a representation of self, object, or place. In essence, a name is not much more than the sum of it's letters. It may be heavily important in verbal and educated societies, but the name does not make the person it labels; that is the choice of the person or objects named.
It's merely how you interpret it, I think the question is asked to make us think about the meaning and purpose of names; and under that pretext I agree with it.
2007-12-18 21:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by angellove21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's in a name? Well, if your name happens to be Kennedy or Rockefeller and you want to cash a check out of town, a lot.
I also remember an advertising campaign for Smucker's jellies that had the catch phrase "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good" which led to a Saturday Night Live skit about other products with names that demanded quality to overcome the name itself, like "Mangled Baby Ducks".
Names matter. In Shakespeare's context, you have to remember that the inability to see the significance of the family names (in the context of a long standing feud) led them both to suicide. Shakespeare wasn't wrong, his characters were simply tragically unaware.
2007-12-18 22:55:37 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do agree, wouldn't you?
when you here the name President George Bush who do you think about? If you were named Fidel Castro or Hussein would you liked to be called those names? A name stores a significant value on your personality and the way people resemble you as. It can bring joy to people or bring anguish to many.
2007-12-19 09:37:12 · answer #4 · answered by xìn xīn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is such a horrible misquote. Anyway, I know what you are refering to, and it isn't the name that is important, it is the meaning behind the name. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is saying that [the quote], because she loves Romeo and no matter what his last name is, he will still be the same person, but because he is a Montague and his family is warring with Juliet's, their love is doomed.
2016-03-16 03:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree, a name is determined by your reputation, what you do to have to show for yourself. What you leave behind and how people will remember you.
You make a name for yourself.
So what is so important about a name? Shakespere is a very famous name.
That's my guess.
2007-12-18 21:29:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope i wouldn't agree
2007-12-18 21:27:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NAMES ARE NOT IMPORTANT .have u read romio &juliet .if u call the rose any other name will its smell change?ofcourse not ,it will keep its beauty,its smell.names aren`t important at all
2007-12-18 21:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by nonia 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋