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Comparing Romeo In Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

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realizes this and proceeds to persuade Romeo once more by explaining that “I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy” (I.IV.96-98). Ultimately, Mercutio convinces Romeo that dreams develop due to an idle brain that consists of nothing but unrealistic fantasies. At the Capulet’s feast that Mercutio forces Romeo to attend, Romeo’s love for Juliet interrupts his pining for Rosaline. At that moment in time, Romeo is downcast because of Rosaline’s failure to return his love, as a result, he rushes his feelings for Juliet. Since Mercutio brings Romeo to the Capulet’s feast, Romeo meets Juliet, which begins the journey until their deaths.
Another reason is that Mercutio decides to fight Tybalt to prevent him from provoking Romeo; consequently, he establishes a …show more content…

Mercutio feels that as Romeo’s friend, he needs to protect Romeo who is unwilling to fight Tybalt. Tybalt feels the need to fight Romeo to protect his reputation because at the Capulet feast, Lord Capulet lets Romeo stay since he is virtuous and well-behaved. After that, Lord Capulet insults Tybalt by calling him a “saucy boy” which initiates his enmity towards Romeo. Therefore, Mercutio annoys Tybalt by saying “Good Kings of Cats, (I want) nothing but one of your nine lives...”(III.I.72). Mercutio endeavors to redirect Tybalt’s anger from Romeo to himself. In order to do that he makes fun of Tybalt’s name by calling him Tybalt the Prince of Cats from Reynard the Fox. In addition to that, he is saying he wants to take one of the nine lives he “has”, Mercutio compares Tybalt to a cat and outrages him. Furthermore, since Tybalt only has one life because he is in fact not a cat, taking one of his lives means killing him. Tybalt constantly makes derogatory remarks about Romeo, however, Romeo has no means to fight Tybalt. Tybalt believes Romeo is trying to irritate him, however, Romeo had married Juliet making them cousins. Tybalt is unaware of this

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He can't understand Romeo's refusal to fight Tybalt. Mercutio states, ”O calm, dishonorable, vile submission" (III.1.72). Mercutio’s statement shows that he thinks Romeo’s hesitance to fight is insane. Mercutio demonstrates his loyalty when he takes up Tybalt's challenge. Mercutio shows that he is a true friend and that he is courageous by fighting Tybalt.

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Out of his own free will, Mercutio wilfully replaced Romeo in Tybalt’s requested duel. During act 3, scene 1, Tybalt, still aggravated by the recent ‘party crasher’ incident, hastily searches for Romeo with the intent to begin the duel. However, with his secret betrothal to Juliet, Romeo is seeking to make peace with Tybalt as now they are legally ‘family’. Oblivious to recent events, Tybalt has no impression that Romeo is married to Juliet, therefore his hatred continues to cultivate. This is expressed when Tybalt states “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.”

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The love Mercutio has for Romeo makes him want to fight Tybalt, which leads to Tybalt stabbing him and his death. Love destroys by making Mercutio fight for Romeo. Additionally this can also be seen with Juliet killing herself when she sees Romeo

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In the beginning of the story, Mercutio tries hard to cheer Romeo up from being so heartbroken. Mercutio is invited to go to the Capulet’s party and Romeo sees that Rosaline is invited

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Romeo’s brief moment of hatred for Tybalt was created because of his companionship with Mercutio. The death of Mercutio is a testament to resentment’s ability to alter people's

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He wants to fight, but Romeo is not budging, for he does not want to harm Juliet’s cousin. So instead of Romeo fighting Tybalt, Mercutio fights Tybalt because Romeo will not fight for himself. Romeo steps between them and tries to stop the duel, but Tybalt manages to stab Mercutio underneath Romeo’s

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Romeo acts as an arbitrator between Tybalt and Mercutio because he understands the repercussions of the impending clash. He tries his best to reason with Tybalt by saying “I do protest, I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise.” Meaning that he won 't fight because he is related to him through marriage. Tybalt, not knowing of their secret wedding ignores Romeo’s comment, continuing his goading of Mercutio.

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is at the most of Mercutio’s death because of his explosive personality and temper, which led to him acting without thinking. In act 3 Scene 1, a tragic and dramatic fight takes place, where Mercutio was struck by Tybalt and as a result, died. This fight came to be because Tybalt came up to Romeo demanding a duel for he was at a Capulet ball. Romeo, being married to Tybalt’s in-law tries to avoid the conflict when Tybalt states “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain” (3.1.61-62)

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Romeo allows his thirst for revenge to cloud his logical reasoning when he kills Tybalt who has just murdered Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend. Mercutio defends Romeo against Tybalt’s insults with comebacks and later his sword. As Romeo attempts to intervene, Mercutio is stabbed by Tybalt and Romeo is enraged. Once he finds out from Benvolio that the wound had killed him, Romeo,”Who had but newly entertained revenge,” (III.i.173), kills Tybalt and flees the scene. Romeo declined to

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Mercutio chooses to fight Tybalt when he calls for him to draw (Shakespeare 434). Romeo’s reason to kill Tybalt was because Tybalt killed Mercutio which he called family because he was married to Juliet. Juliet and Mercutio were cousins. The consequence for Romeo was to be banished from Verona. If he appeared back to the town, he would be killed.

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Consequently, Tybalt thinks Romeo is mocking him further after Romeo’s mistake of crashing a Capulet party earlier in the plot. If Romeo and Juliet did not keep their marriage a secret the families might have accepted their love. Additionally, Romeo could have avoided referencing his love his Tybalt when he knew Tybalt was waiting to duel with him. Once Mercutio steps in for Romeo and begins to fight Tybalt, Romeo attempts to break it up with the help of another friend Benvolio (3.1.87). What looks like a solution to the altercation to Romeo

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Mercutio also protects Romeo against Tybalt showing love towards Romeo by risking his own life but also hating Tybalt at the same time. Mercutio also hates the arguments and disagreements between the families which even leads to his death we can see this when Mercutio says” A plague a’both houses I am sped.” This tells us that Mercutio is angry and hurt from the family rivalry and wants is to end but he also loves his cousin/best friend Romeo so he will risk his life to fight for

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Tybalt tells Romeo to fight him, but since Romeo is now married to Juliet, he says that he can’t. To this, Mercutio responds with,“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!”(3.1.74), and then proceeds to fight Tybalt on Romeo’s behalf in defense of the Montague name. It’s clear through Mercutio’s rage felt diction towards Romeo such as “dishonorable” and “vile” that he believes Romeo’s efforts to make peace are acts of betrayal to his own family. Because of Mercutio’s brash actions in the act of defending his family’s honor, he ends up being injured and killed by Tybalt, all because he felt so much hate that he couldn’t stand down like Romeo had. Mercutio’s death made Romeo blindly angry to the point where he killed Tybalt, who was technically a part of his family.

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Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare wrote what he wrote for a reason, he did was he did to make the story flow and to give it dimension, get our attentions. To all those readers out there who get caught up in anything that they read will know that Shakespeare wouldn’t portray Romeo as the most important character if he indeed wasn’t. From all the actions Romeo took throughout the story he had the greatest impact of the entire outcome of the drama. Sometimes not going with your gut can be good, it lets you experience wonderful feelings, in this case Romeo let Mercutio talk him into something that would change the rest of his short life. The party, what started it all, and Romeo was skeptical about going from the start because unlike Benvolio and the others he has

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