How Is Mercutio Presented In Romeo And Juliet

Riley Salisbury

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Wilkinson

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio is a very witty, crazy, anti-romantic, quick tempered, daring, and joking character.

But mainly all he is is witty and crazy. This behavior can easily be found in act 2 scene four when he taunts the nurse. “Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face.” (2.4.1261). This shows Mercutio’s style of humor and how he is witty. He likes to make fun of other people a lot.

The famous Queen Mab speech is a very good example of his playful and joking self. It also shows his mood-swing personality. In the Romeo and Juliet 1968 film, he talks about Queen Mab and towards the end he starts to get all emotional and kind of cries a little. “O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In

In detail, step by step, it is a chain reaction. It started when Tybalt killed Mercutio. Because of this, Romeo is driven insane. In result, he kills Tybalt. Romeo is then banished for life from Verona by the prince. This made Juliet stricken with grief. Her dad had sympathy and wanted her to be happy. He decided she would marry Count Parris by Thursday. Juliet was very unhappy and saw Friar Laurence for advice. He gave her some “poison” to make her appear dead. Balthasar told Romeo about the funeral. Romeo went to Verona and snuck into the monument and saw Juliet dead. Then he drank the poison the apothecary sold him and he died. Juliet ends up killing herself. So by this, Mercutio’s death caused the tragedy. If it weren’t for him, Tybalt would have been alive, Romeo not banished, and Juliet not unconscious and seem dead, and finally Romeo and Juliet not killing themselves. Mercutio had to have been a character in Romeo and Juliet or the plot never would have been interesting and suspensive or even as romantic as it had