Mercutio is one of the reasons that Romeo and Juliet ever meet in the first place. On their way to the party Mercutio urges Romeo to go to the party when he begins to have doubts and misgivings in regards to attending. Also, Mercutio's death caused Tybalt's; his death is the reason that Romeo decides to fight Tybalt and kill him which causes a domino effect of events. Though Tybalt may not effect the play as much as Mercutio he does affect it in some ways. One way that Tybalt affects the play is by continuing to persuade Romeo to fight even after he says he does not want to.…
Through the reading of Romeo and Juliet, Willian Shakespeare presents many contrasts. Foil is a character that provides a strong contrast to another character. Mercutio and Romeo are very close friends, but both had different characteristics, turning Romeo and Mercutio foils for each other. One is the complete opposite from each other, while Romeo is hopeless, melancholy, pessimistic, and believes in love, Mercutio is jovial, sarcastic, optimistic, and find love humorous. One of the first things that people notice in Romeo and Mercutio is their way to see the love.…
“But I love thee better that thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love and so good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own, be satisfied.” (Page 866 lines 66-69) Mercutio cannot bear Tybalts insults and in turn steps in and defends Romeo. A new side of Romeo’s personality is revealed after Tybalt kills Mercutio. Up until this ,point…
Mercutio Mercutio is one of Shakespeare's most memorable characters out of all the different characters he has included into his different plays. Mercutio is one of Romeo's best friends throughout the book. Mercutio was killed by Tybalt another important character rather early in the book but was still recognized as a one of Shakespeare's greatest creations. But what makes Mercutio such an important and memorable character in Romeo and Juliet.…
The first scene is set at a gas station, opening to 3 young men pulling in after a fast ride on the highway in their bright yellow topless car. A shoot out soon ensues, requiring a swat team and a helicopter to break up. Another scene portrays a boy by his lonesome on a beach, writing love poetry as he finishes a cigarette. A third scene introduces a party following an ecstasy-induced drug trip, and later a request to elope is placed with a tattooed ‘friar’ who wears Hawaiian shirts beneath his robes. Surely a description as such (albeit a true description) could not reveal the ever-popular tale the production recounts; surely, one could not guess that these are scenes from a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.…
This can also be seen by his speech about Queen Mab, showing his cynical side. Mercutio is also very realistic and pessimistic, saying “I talk of dreams,/Which are the children of an idle brain,/Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,” which highlights how naive and delusional Romeo can be sometimes. His contrast with Romeo poses many questions about how the story would be much different if Romeo listened to Mercutio’s advice to stop…
Whenever something bad would happen, he would always try and make people feel better by using his humor. Mercutio said”Come, sir, your passado” but when he said that he was about to duel Tybalt but he was doing so in a joking matter to maybe that Tybalt would not want to fight Romeo and take up that duel instead. Also, whenever Mercutio said “That's as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams.” And what he was meaning by that was that he was saying to Romeo that his case was ridiculous but using a funny…
Romeo’s first example of impulsiveness causes his friend’s, Mercutio, death. Mercutio Escalus…
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the tragic and dramatic elements of the play are balanced by the comic relief dispersed through Act 1 via sexual puns, the nurse’s dialogue, and Mercutio ridiculing Romeo’s idea of true love. Shakespeare uses sexual puns all throughout act 1 in his drama. He includes it in the beginning of the play when Sampson talks to Gregory about about “cutting off the maids heads” and when the nurse supplies the memory of young Juliet saying she will fall on her back when Juliet gets older. The scene with Gregory and Sampson provides comic relief since the serving men of both sides of the feuding families are going to fight. “Tis all one.…
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a story about true love doomed to the worse of fates. Mercutio, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo, pushes the story forward at the beginning with his encouragement of Romeo to have fun and forget his past love. Farther in the story he helps bring out the theme of hate and sorrow, because of his feud and dislike for Tybalt (nephew to Lady Capulet).which causes the tragic ending. Mercutio encourages Romeo to have fun “we must have you dance.”. He advises, in his roundabout, whimsical way, for Romeo to not let himself fall into the despair of a one-sided love.…
Mercutio knows if Tybalt duels with Romeo, Romeo will most likely lose. So Mercutio protects him by insulting Tybalt by saying “O calm, dishonourable, vile submission” then goes on to say, with a now drawn sword “Tybalt you rat catcher, will you walk” which is a question of a duel. Mercutio doing this is a great act of loyalty toward Romeo. Mercutio’s death by Tybalt adds to his heroic services to Romeo. Romeo shows his act of loyalty back to Mercutio by getting revenge on his soul, he does this by beating Tybalt and overall killing him.…
Mercutio responds by poking fun at what he considers to be Romeo’s childish and immature views on love. He laughs at Romeo and says, “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.” While the text might lead readers to interpret Mercutio’s teasing as playful, a visual representation of this scene reveals it as rather flirtatious. Mercutio speaks to Romeo close to his face and looks him straight in the eyes, qualities that are often observed among lovers.…
Mercutio is an anti-romantic character who, regards that love is no more than an excuse to pursue sexual pleasure and makes a man weak and pathetic. When Romeo complains about the heartache of his unrequited love for Rosaline, Mercutio tells him to get over it already by punning bawdily: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love:/ Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down”(I, iv, 27-28). Mercutio advocates an adversarial concept of love that contrasts sharply with Romeo 's idealized notion of romantic union. Mercutio does not understand Romeo’s unique idea of love, and therefore mocks Romeo saying that love makes him weak and he should beat love down. Another example of how Shakespeare uses literary devices to portray Mercutio’s definition of love is when he tried to coax Romeo out of hiding by mocking him with sexual puns: “Now he will sit under a melder tree,/ And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit/ As maids call medlars when they laugh alone./…
He is the complete opposite of Romeo, his best friend,and mocks love while Romeo appeases it and seeks it. Mercutio is seen as a realist as he sees past all the dreamy parts of love and knows it isn’t something that should be so fought after. He simply doesn’t believe in love. Shakespeare's philosophy is that love is not what it seems to be. Many believe it to be something out of a fairytale when in reality it is not and Mercutio knows this.…
Mercutio, the man behind the protagonist. Mercutio is an anti-romantic character who regards love as something physical and mocks Romeo for thinking of it as anything else. His rant during Act 1 Scene 4, speaks to his feelings on anything that is not in the physical or concrete. He says that dreams are “begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of a substance as the air (1.4.105-106).” From this we can infer that he not only believes that dreams are a foolish thing to believe in but, that love is one and the same.…