Mercutio To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

As Frank Zappa once said "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life" In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare two star-crossed lovers fall in love quickly and get caught up in many conflicts. Sadly, as it is a tragedy the lovers tragically took their lives in the end of their story. There is one concern about their death, who or what is to blame for their deaths. Mercutio had a big influence on the lovers deaths by convincing Romeo to go to the ball, Mercutio fighting Tybalt and dying enraging Romeo to kill Tybalt, and Mercutio's death was a part of how Romeo got banished which was Romeo and Juliet's ultimate downfall. Mercutio is a good friend of Romeo and Benvolio and his persuasive

The first piece of evidence to support this isn’t a quote it is just a part in Act III Scene I when Tybalt went to Benvolio and Mercutio in search of Romeo. Tybalt said that he would want to fight Romeo and then Mercutio stepped in. Mercutio ended up instigating Tybalt and got into a fight and died. This begin to anger Romeo. This evidence shows that Mercutio got in a fight and tragically died. This proves the claim because he is now mad at Tybalt for killing his close friend. Him killing his best friend is part of the reason that Romeo’s death is Mercutio’s fault. If Mercutio never instigated a fight between himself and Tybalt, Romeo would have never been angry to the point where he wants to kill Tybalt. This affects the death of Romeo because he is a very mad man now and has Tybalt on his hitlist. The second piece of evidence that proves this is when Romeo sees Tybalt again shortly after the death of Mercutio that Tybalt was responsible for. When Romeo sees Tybalt in Act III Scene I he says “Alive in triumph! and Mercutio slain! Away to heaven respective lenity, And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now!-- Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him." This is a quote by

The first quote to support this is just after Romeo had killed Tybalt in a fight to avenge his friend Mercutio. Benvolio was telling Romeo to go or else he will be arrested and killed on sight. When Romeo’s is beginning to flee the scene in Act III Scene I he says “O, I am fortune's fool!” What Romeo is saying in this quote is that he is an idiot and he needs to flee Verona or else he will die and that his future is gone. This proves the claim because since Mercutio got into a fight, Romeo got into a fight to avenge him and he now has to leave Verona and his future is gone. He can no longer see Juliet as easily because she lives in Verona still and Romeo can’t be in Verona. Since they are far apart, a plan is made to get them together but it backfires and they both die. Romeo and Juliet’s death is Mercutio’s fault for this reason because Romeo getting banished I feel was the ultimate downfall of Romeo and Juliet and Romeo would’ve never been banished had Mercutio not been so instigating of a fight where he died. The second quote to support this is in Act III Scene III when Friar Laurence is telling Romeo his ounishment for the murder of Tybalt. Romeo then expresses how he feels about banishment to Friar by saying “There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.