Using his imagination, Mercutio describes Queen Mab to Romeo as one would describe Santa Claus, where Santa Claus is actually fictional, but also in a reality. In Queen Mab's case, people have different dreams about the things they want, but the imaginative part is that Queen Mab sends these dreams to people. Queen Mab's story is supposed to prove Mercutio's imagination and that beneath his pugnacity lies a poet. In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio plays Romeo's rebellious friend who uses his imagination to cheer Romeo up and describe to him what he thinks about dreams. When she talks about Queen Mab, the Dream Fairy, talks about what she discovers in people's dreams, and how she can make someone dream of something. In Act I, scene iv, page 349, Mercutio says: “Through the brains of lovers, and then they dream of love; On the knees of courtiers, let them dream of upright reverences; O'er the fingers of lawyers, who dream directly of fees; “The lips of ladies who dream of direct kisses” means that when it crosses the brain of a lover, they dream of love, lawyers dream of money and ladies dream of kisses. Queen Mab can also make one dream of something and this is demonstrated in Mercutio's speech in Act I, scene iv, page 349, "Sometimes she gallops on the courtier's nose, then dreams that he smells a suit " ; it says that simply by hovering over someone, she can make them dream their wildest dreams. Because Mercutio can paint such a picture, he demonstrates his poetic ability. Mercutio uses his imagination to make Romeo understand that life is not a spectator sport. He talks about Queen Mab and paints a picture for Romeo that dreams are a waste of time and if you want something you have to get it yourself. In Act I, Scene IV, page 348, Romeo says: “I will be a candlestick and I will look; the game has never been fairer, and I'm done. I had a dream last night. This means he had a dream, but now it's over and he's giving up. Now also in Act I, Scene IV, page 350, Mercutio says: “I speak of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begotten of nothing but vain fancies. » This means that if Romeo just sat and dreamed, he