How Is Mercutio Presented In Romeo And Juliet

Does anyone believe in love at first sight? Is it possible to identify your significant other based upon one meeting with them? Can a couple last if they have not built a secure foundation? William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a story of star-crossed lovers that highlights the answers to all these questions through the use of humour and tragedy. Most tragedies have characters in the story who comfort the main characters as they are going through a negative experience. Mercutio is that particular character in the indicated story for today and he is crucial to the plot and character development that occurs. Mercutio is a kinsmen (also a nephew) to the Prince and a very good friend to Romeo Montague, the tragic hero. Mercutio serves one

Mercutio is there to defend his friend when Tybalt is ready to fight Romeo just to stroke Tybalt’s ego. Mercutio becomes angry when he hears enough disrespect from Tybalt and wants to deal with the Prince of Cats himself. This occurs in Act Three Scene One when this fine ‘gentleman’ angrily utters: “Marry, go before the field, he’ll be your follower. Your worship in that sense may call him ‘man’ ”(3.1.52-3), “Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine/lives.That I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use/me here after dry-beat the rest of the eighth. Will you/pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out”(3.1.71-5). Another example of Mercutio showing his friendship is when he and Benvolio go looking for Romeo after the Capulet ball. Romeo just disappears from the group and his buddy worries about him, knowing that he is not in the right state of

When Mercutio dies, Romeo slays Tybalt which results in banishment and separation from his true love, Juliet Capulet. Mercutio is the first one to die in the play which serves as a turning point in the play. Another piece of evidence is that the Prince gives Romeo a hard time because he is so emotionally invested in the death of his nephew. He only mentions Mercutio’s death, showing that it is a personal issue for him. Prince Escalus reveals his true feelings when he says this: “My blood for your rude brawls doth lie-a-bleeding.”(3.1.188),“ That you shall all repent the loss of mine”(3.1.190). Therefore, when Mercutio dies, has brought a new twist to the play and revealed character traits of Prince Escalus and Romeo