Romeo is hopeless romantic who deeply falls in love with Juliet. After his marriage, he enters in some conflict with Tybalt. In Act 3 Mercutio says “MERCUTIO. O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!Alla stoccata carries it away.[Draws] Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?” (iii, i, 72-74) Romeo, trying to stop any blood shed from happening says, “ROMEO. Draw, Benvolio, beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets.Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio![Tybalt under Romeo's arm stabs Mercutio, and flies with his followers]” (iii, i, 84-88) Out of grief from witnessing Mercutio's death, Romeo fights Tybalt and fatally stabs him. Mercutio was trying to defend Romeo and his name, and wanted to battle Tybalt to show his cowardness. …show more content…
When Mercutio was slain, Romeo chose to fight and kill Tybalt, eventually ending with him being exiled from Verona. If he did not interfere with the fight at all, and didn't kill anyone, he wouldn't be exiled from Verona. This also means that it wouldn't be a struggle to give word to Romeo about the plan Friar has arranged to have him and Juliet run and start new life in Mantua. Deeper into the play, Romeo was so infatuated with her, that it led to him committing suicide at the feet of her. The text says, “ROMEO. Come hither, man.