Friendship In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, shows a story about two star crossed lovers, who try to make their love work but in the end they both take their lives. In the play an important event is when Tybalt kills Mercutio and it reveals the strong friendship between Mercutio and Romeo.This event is an important event is important to the text as a whole because it shows how strong the hatred between the Capulets and Montagues really was. This was shown as before the Capulets and Montagues met, Benvolio and Mercutio were just hanging out, and Romeo was very happy since he had just married Juliet. Secondly this is an important event as it shows Tybalt has a very strong hatred for the Montagues and wanted revenge on Romeo and

It is important because it shows Tybalt's strong hatred for the Montagues and how he wants to seek revenge on Romeo for embarrassing him at the feast. This scene takes place when Tybalt confronts Mercutio and Benvolio looking for a fight with Romeo shown in the quote “boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw” said by Tybalt. This shows that Tybalt came knowing he was going to fight someone, most likely to the death of either him or another Montague or in this case both, it also shows how Tybalt was focused on getting revenge and only revenge and not thinking of the consequences of what would happen if he did kill someone as the price has just said any more public brawls could result in the death of Lord Capulet since all the pubic fighting had to come to the end as other people who were not involved in the feud were still being put i danger because of them. This event is important to the text as a whole as it shows that love can be expressed in many ways such as Tybalt expresses his love for his family the Capulets and will do anything to show this, and to prove that the Capulets are better than the Montagues and won’t be made fools of, as that's what Romeo made of them and especially him by coming to their feast. This scene also shows Romeo knew something bad would come out of fighting Tybalt and therefore tried to avoid fighting him and

This but begins the woe others must end”. This quote means Romeo is out to seek revenge on Tybalt and all the other Capulets involved in Mercutio's death, also that he’s planning to do something to get back on these Capulets within the next couple days or whenever he gets the opportunity, this also shows how strong the friendship between Romeo and Mercutio was as Romeo was prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure Tybalt got what Romeo thought he deserved for killing his best friend. This event is important to the event as a whole as it shows the rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues is very strong and it doesn't take much for this rivalry to go over the edge and result in havoc and more revenge and hatred between the two families. This scene also shows that Tybalt wanted more revenge on Romeo than to just kill his best friend but to also kill him, it also shows Tybalt thought very highly of himself as he was asking for Romeo to fight him as he thought we could kill him as well as Mercutio. This is shown through the quote said by Tybalt “Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here shalt with him hence”. This quote means Tybalt is abusing Romeos current state