A rose by any other name là gì năm 2024

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Maybe names really WILL hurt you. People with initials such as ACE or GOD are likely to live longer than those whose names spell out words like APE, DUD, RAT or PIG, a study suggests.

The study, conducted by researchers from the University of California at San Diego, looked at 27 years' worth of California death certificates.

People with monograms such as JOY or WOW had a better chance of living longer and were less likely to commit suicide or die in an accident than those with neutral or meaningless initials such as JAY or WLW, or those named, say, BUM or UGH, said psychologist Nicholas Christenfeld.

He presented his findings Friday at a meeting in New Orleans of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

"The argument is that there's some psychological symbolic factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years. You get teased at school, wonder what your parents thought of you maybe fate is out to get you but at every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called ACE or WOW," he said in an interview. "All we can do is look at the final outcome."

The findings do seem to support the idea that liking your name and liking yourself may be linked, and that parents should be sensitive when naming children, said Penelope Wasson Dralle, a professor in LSU Medical Center's psychiatry department.

"If people tend to look at your name and look up at you and laugh, you're sort of at a disadvantage," she said. But, she warned, the study "really doesn't give us any cause and effects."

The study looked at the 5 million or so people who died in California from 1969 through 1997.

Concentrating on men because marriage generally doesn't change their initials, the researchers found 2,287 men with initials that were deemed plainly negative, such as ILL or DED. An additional 1,200 spelled or came close to words considered indisputably positive: WIN and VIP, for example. The researchers found 11 "good" sets of initials and 19 "bad" ones.

"Neutral" words and those that had both bad and good meanings were tossed from the list. So DAM and WET didn't make it. Nor did RAY and SUN.

All in all, men with WINning initials lived 4.48 years longer than a control group of people with neutral or ambiguous monograms, while DUDs, ASSes and such died an average of 2.8 years earlier than a control group.

The researchers did not compare the good and bad groups directly, instead comparing each to separate control groups.

Six suicides were reported among the 1,200 men in the good group, vs. 79 among the 2,287 men in the bad group. That works out to half a percent vs. 3.5 percent. There were 31 accidental deaths

2.5 percent in the good group vs. 138, or 6 percent, in the bad group.

"The notion being that accidents aren't really accidents whether deliberate or not, if you think lss of yourself, you may be more likely to drive your car into a bridge abutment," Christenfeld said.

We use the phrase ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ today to indicate that things are what they are, no matter what name you give them.

This line – ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ – is a quotation from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, spoken by Juliet Capulet (Act 2, Scene 2) to herself whilst on her balcony, but overheard by Romeo Montague.

‘Tis but thy 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 name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.

Juliet is saying that even if the rose has a different name it would still have its wonderful scent. She is a highly intelligent girl and this monologue is one of the most profound observations in all of Shakespeare.

This principle of things being what they are, no matter what name you give them is at the heart of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The names Montague and Capulet are extremely important in the world of this play, but Juliet cuts through that by suggesting that whichever one of those you are is unimportant. Whether you are called Montague or Capulet you are still the same person, and that’s what matters.

‘A rose by any other name’ quote in context

Juliet has met Romeo at her father’s party and thinks he has gone home, but he is lingering in her garden, watching the balcony of her bedroom. She comes out and he overhears her speaking. It’s then that he shows himself to her and the action between them begins, leading to their secret marriage and their deaths.

The two leading families – the Montagues and the Capulets – are engaged in an ancient feud. They move in entirely different circles and avoid each other. Romeo and Juliet’s generation are slightly more flexible, as are some older members of the families, shown by Romeo’s gatecrashing Capulet’s party and Capulet welcoming him and his friends.

But any thought of intermarriage would be taboo. So when Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, it’s dynamite. And it becomes even more explosive when they marry, and before long they find themselves in a corner from which there is no escape.

The action hurtles from their initial encounter to their tragic deaths, something that would not have happened were it not for this ancient feud connected with the names of people bearing the names of Montague and Capulet.

And so, the actual flower with its sweet smell is the important thing and the name ‘rose’ is unimportant – without that, it still would smell as sweet. But in the situation of these two unfortunate young people, it is not the two young people but their names that prove to be more important.

Their parents, the heads of the two families, come to understand that when they see what their feud, based on their names, has led to, and they resolve to end it. Which is a fitting end to the tragedy.

Now you’ve read through Juliet’s quote and understand the full meaning of the monologue, and its context in Romeo and Juliet, try reading it one time: