Is Mercutio To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

The nurse is also at fault of this tragic event. She acted as Juliet’s mom in a sense, since her actual mother was never there for her. The nurse helped in regards of the marriage of Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene 5, Line 70). She encourages Juliet to marry for love and she kept her secret until Juliet took it to the grave. But when the

Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that has many deaths. Two of the most tragic are Romeo and Juliet. Their death was influenced by many characters inside the play, but some had more effect than others. The people most responsible are Mercutio, Tybalt and the Friar.

. Firstly, Tybalt is to blame for Mercutio’s death as he actually gave him the wound that killed him. Also, Tybalt provokes Mercutio by insulting Romeo, ‘Thou art a villain.’ This is one of the biggest insults that Tybalt can give and would usually be followed by a duel. However, Romeo calmly replies by saying ‘Villain I am none / Therefore farewell. I see thou know’st me not.’ Because Romeo is not defending his honour, Mercutio is provoked by Tybalt’s insults and starts insulting Tybalt himself. This is what leads to the two of them fighting and Mercutio getting his fatal wound. So, if Tybalt didn’t insult Romeo or fight Mercutio, Mercutio wouldn’t have been killed.

He is the one who tries to pick Romeo back up and dust him off. Even though Romeo may not have admitted it, Mercutio was portrayed as his rock. That is why when he dies, this triggers a turning point in the play for the worst, resulting in multiple deaths and even an exile. Romeo and Juliet’s plan was caused by the death of Mercutio, because if he had not fallen, Romeo would not have lost his temper and slain Tybalt in a fit of rage. Romeo feels to blame since Mercutio “…got his mortal hurt in [Romeo’s] behalf;” (III.i.106-107). In turn, Romeo strives for vengeance and achieves it through the death of Tybalt. Although Mercutio is considered to be a subsidiary character, the outcome of the story would have been much

In Romeo and Juliet, to what extent is the Nurse to blame for the tragedy?

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's plays about tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding famillies prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot but some have the

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge.

The nurse betrayed her employers by encouraging and helping Romeo and Juliet without their consent. When she told Juliet that she thought she should betray Romeo and marry Paris, Juliet lost all confidence in her and went along with the Friar’s plan. Had the nurse stayed faithful Juliet may not have felt so desperate and might not have fled to the Friar.

Many people can be put to blame for these two young people, including their parents, by keeping the feud between the two families going. Mercutio can be blamed, to some degree. He was the one who got Romeo to go to the ball. When Mercutio was killed, Romeo avenged his death, and ended up having to leave Verona instead of staying with Juliet.

The first action that causes Mercutio’s death is when he makes Romeo go with him to the Capulet’s party. Before going to the party, Mercutio says, “Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.” (1, 4, 13). He pushes and pressures Romeo into going to the party even though he has a bad feeling about it, and it sends trouble his way. If he had left Romeo at home, Tybalt wouldn’t have declared a duel with Romeo the next day, Romeo would never have met Juliet and stayed out all night, and Mercutio and Benvolio wouldn’t have been out looking for him. Because he did drag Romeo to the party, he ended up encountering Tybalt and a few other

In scene Mercutio's final words are “I am hurt. A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.“(act 3 scene 1 page 5 line 3) Tybalt kills mercutio with one brutal stab to the chest, while romeo is trying to stop this death fight from happening. Romeo tries to break up the fight, but in the end of, he was too late still got stabbed, preventing nothing that wasn't going to happen to happen already. May a plague strike both your houses. Goddammit! I can’t believe that dog, that rat, that mouse, that cat could scratch me to death!( 3 scene 1 page 5 line 12) As mercutio dies he has one last speech of how he compares Tybalt and Romeo to animeals. by his quote of comparing both Tybalt and Romeo to dogs, rats, mouses, and cats could kill him, and in a sense can be interrupted as Mercutio thinking he’s superior than the others around him. This killed mercutio and ended the dual, but enraged someone else, that would kill the killer.

You have played the blame game your entire life. From the day you eat all your halloween candy till the day you scratch your parents car. Many people have played the blame game before you and many will play it after you. Romeo and Juliet is about two lovers, brought together by fate and doomed by the stars. In this play everyone balmes everyone for their problems. They do this so that they don’t have to actually face their problems and figure out how to move on. There is no one person to blame, everyone is to blame, every single character at some point made a concious decision at some point to further strain the realtionships between the two families.

When Mercutio first appears in Act 1, Scene 4, he, Romeo, and Benvolio are preparing to go to Capulet’s masquerade. Romeo does not want to participate, but Mercutio convinces him (I, iv. 41-42). Romeo agrees to participate, recognizing that he may not be entirely in control of his future (I, iv. 112-113). In the next scene, Romeo meets Juliet, creating the main storyline of the play. It is obvious that this would have only occurred due to Mercutio’s influence; Romeo would not have taken part if Mercutio had not convinced him to. Romeo was feeling too dejected, and would have sat on the sidelines instead. The other major example of Mercutio’s influence in the play is exhibited in the scene in which he dies. Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, who declines; Romeo does not want to fight his cousin. Tybalt, however, sees this as an insult and questions Romeo’s honour. Mercutio stands up for him, and Tybalt and Mercutio fight. Romeo attempted to stop them, but he is too late; Tybalt stabbed Mercutio, before fleeing the scene. With his dying breaths, Mercutio blames Romeo for his wound, saying “…Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.” (III, i. 98-99). Romeo realizes that Mercutio’s wound truly was his fault, and his grief is made worse when he finds that Mercutio has died. Tybalt returns to find Romeo wracked with grief. To avenge his fallen friend, Romeo challenges Tybalt to a duel, which Romeo quickly wins. There is no question that this would have happened if Mercutio had not been killed; after all, Tybalt was Romeo’s cousin, if only for a couple of hours. In this scene, Mercutio not only influences Romeo, but with his death at Tybalt’s hands leads Romeo to kill Tybalt. In addition, Mercutio influenced the members of the Capulet family as well. Lastly, Mercutio’s death lead to a string

We see the nurses friendship with Juliet when she says, “Romeo! no, not he; though his / face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels / all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, / though they be not to be talked on, yet they are / past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy / but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb” (2.5.1416-1421). As you can see the Nurse acts almost as though Juliet would act. Another instance where the Nurse shows her friendship she has with Juliet is when she became Juliet’s co-conspirator in marrying Romeo. Throughout the play the nurse is constantly hiding Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another. Besides the fact that she was keeping secrets for Juliet, she had also delivered bad news to her, like when she told her the news of Tybalt's death: “The Nurse also gives Juliet the news that Romeo killed Tybalt and was exiled by the Prince, throwing Juliet's emotions further into a whirl” (Angie Creel, “Romeo and Juliet: The Nurse”). The emotional toll one 14 year old girl would be feeling with her beloved cousin dead and her one true love exiled, would be catastrophic and merely devastating. She not only gained a part in her life, but also in her death

Romeo and Juliet are the main characters in one of Shakespeare most known plays, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is about 2 lovers that are so in love that they kill themselves over it, but who was the cause of this. It turned out to be the leader and protector of this town…. Prince Escaluse. Prince Escaluse is the one to blame because he did not play the role of the prince correctly.