Because of Mercutio’s funny acting in the scenes, it best portrays Shakespeare’s intent. It uses a variety of humor such as the Montagues laughing and playing around with the nurse, and includes Mercutio being weird and acting silly in scenes where he jumps into the water and gurgles his mouth with the fountain, and where he falls on the stairs on one leg and then shouting “Plague on both of your houses”. The montagues playing around with the nurse shows how it includes humor in the movie and how Shakespeare would have represented it visually. When Mercutio shouts “Plague on both of your houses”, he is using dramatic foreshadowing because it talks about future death. The location of the event is at the town square. Tybalt walks in with fellow
As a consequence of the brawl between Tybalt and Mercutio, Mercutio ends up dead which then develops the theme because of the pain Romeo feels after hearing about his friend’s death.
Romeo’s lovesick moping for Rosaline sparks a need for a wild rant within Mercutio. Mercutio taunts and mocks Romeo, for his dream which tells him they should not crash the Capulet’s party. This, in the end, all falls back on the theme of fate. As a result, Mercutio’s rant persuades Romeo to attend the party because after all, dreams are ridiculous and not always truthful. Additionally, Mercutio is suggesting that, like Queen Mab, dreams (specifically Romeo’s) are petty and insignificant. All of this takes place in Act once Scene four. The purpose of this speech is to add comic relief amongst the tragic events, whilst foreshadowing what’s to come. Romeo is constructed as a juvenile character with a dreamy nature, who is romantic and lovesick , in comparison to his best friend, Mercutio, who takes on the role as a comedic, volatile, pessimistic and sharp-witted personality.
Mercutio takes his last breath in Act 3, Scene 1 of the famous Shakepeare play, Romeo and Juliet. With his dying breath, Mercutio curses both his associates and his long-standing enemies. With clarity and foreshadowing of what is to come, Mercutio leads the play on, letting the players and the audience know, at once that the foolish actions of both the Capulets and the Montagues.
As the fight is getting more and more intense, Romeo, Mercutio’s best friend, intervenes in the fight. He steps in between both Tybalt and Mercutio, and while he is in the way, Mercutio gets stabbed by Tybalt. The moment Mercutio gets stabbed, he becomes furious with Romeo for getting in his way of the fight. Even though Romeo was trying to help Mercutio stay out of trouble, he was the only reason that Mercutio got stabbed. His last few words to his beloved best friend, Romeo, was, “A plague o’ both of your households!” (Act III, Sc. 1). This shows foreshadowing of the two lover’s fatal end because he cursed the two household to have a horrible life. Also, a “plague” of sadness will indeed strike the two households when Romeo and Juliet take their
Her job responsibilities are checking animals in for surgeries and or appointments. She also is responsible for prepping animals for surgery and cleaning surgical instruments. Also making sure that the animals are recovering well and alerting the doctor if there are any problems. During appointments she has to question the owners about the pet’s problems or if it is in for vaccines then ask how their year has been or if they have any questions that they want to ask the doctor. Also draws up vaccines and get them ready for the doctor to take them into the room and also dispense medications for the doctor to send home. If an animal in the kennel left a mess then she has to clean it up. What she likes about her job is working with the animals and most of the owners, knowing that she helps them feel better. What she dislikes about her job is getting bit and when the animals have accidents on her.
Act III, Scene I sees Mercutio slain by Tybalt, ending the life of the main character bringing humour into the play, all just for a petty family rivalry.
However it is due to those selfish wishes that this tragedy becomes the city’s and not just their own. Due to those self-centred desires Mercutio is fatally wounded, his parting words being, ‘...A plague o' both your houses!’ (III,i,68) The prince who is also impacted by the two lovers as well as the feud, states that, ‘...All are punished.’(V,iii,312) meaning that due to their actions, the whole city is suffering and bearing the pain of this tragedy. This proves that the tragedy is not only that of the two lovers but that of the whole
Romeo and Juliet act three scene one happens on a street in Verona during a scorching hot day. When Benvolio and Mercutio spot the Capulets, Mercutio is provocative and wants to start a quarrel with Tybalt because Tybalt insulted Romeo. Tybalt and Mercutio draw their swords and start the brawl. To try and stop the brawl, Romeo steps between them, but it’s too late, Tybalt impales Mercutio under Romeo's arm and Mercutio dies. To get vengeance over Mercutio's death, Romeo attacks Tybalt and kills him. The rendition of Romeo and Juliet I’m going to discuss first is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and second is the 1968 film by Franco Zeffirelli.
Baz Luhrmann has successfully enhanced the audience’s appreciation of Shakespearean text in the scene Death on a Summer’s Day. Mercutio is a dominate and opinionated force throughout the play, who is illustrated by Shakespeare as a victim of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Mercutio’s last dying words express, “A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, And soundly too. Your houses!” Metaphorical language is featured in order to foreshadow the
Love has already overcome him and controls all of his thoughts and actions. This love prevents Mercutio from saving Romeo and keeping peace between the families. In Act 3, scene 1, Mercutio fights Tybalt on behalf of Romeo and his relationship with Romeo. Romeo attempts to break up the fight, but Tybalt stabs Mercutio. As he is dying, Mercutio says, "A plague o' both your houses!
I think that one of the biggest causes of Mercutio’s death is the ‘ancient grudge’ between the ‘two households’, the Capulet’s and Montague’s. This is a massive cause because this alone was what started off all the fights. After Mercutio has been mortally wounded, he sees that this is why he is dying, which is why he says ‘a plague o’ both your houses!’ If the Montague’s and Capulet’s weren’t fighting, Tybalt wouldn’t have gone up to Romeo and insulted him. If that never happened, Mercutio would have never fought Tybalt and died. Also, all of the other reasons for Mercutio’s death would have never happened if the Capulet’s and Montague’s weren’t fighting.
The violent scene at the beginning of Act 3 has several cases of dramatic irony. When Tybalt asks Romeo to draw Romeo claims he has reason to love him. The audience knows what Tybalt does not; that Romeo and Juliet are married therefore Romeo and Tybalt are family. Had Tybalt known this he might not have fought and killed Mercutio. As Mercutio is dying he yells “A plague o' both your houses!” and the audience knows that there is truth in Mercutio’s exclamation. His death sets off a chain of adverse events. Romeo avenges Mercutio’s death by killing Tybalt, and is consequently banished from the city.
We hear this message from our religious leaders and they move us while we sit in the pews, but when we go home our hearts harden like Pharaoh’s did each time Moses pleaded with him to let the Children of Israel go. The common error made by too many of us is attaching too much significance to our worship experience to the extent that when we are done with our Shabbat service, we feel we have put in our time and we can now return to our regularly scheduled lives until next time when we come into the "House of God."
Luhrmann’s production of Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, appeals to the audience members largely due to Mercutio’s death. The weather, the acting and the music make this version powerful. The acting makes this scene of the movie believable when Mercutio was dying, Romeo was getting sad and started crying. Tybalt felt so bad that he killed Mercutio and didn’t know what to do he was just shocked and stood still looking at Romeo and Mercutio. The weather was sunny, hot and the sky was blue and the clouds were out and about. When Mercutio cursed both Romeo and Tybalt houses and started to die the weather started to change. The skies started to turn dark grey and thunder and lightning began and the wind so powerful started to blow all things around it away. Then out of nowhere a powerful storm has began to start when Mercutio was dying in Romeo’s arms. After Romeo killed Tybalt the storm began to become calm down and the storm had stop.
I personally connected to this dialogue because I have had previous experiences and discussions centered on the death penalty. I did not realize the extend to which I despise the death penalty until some of my peers presented their arguments as to why they support the death. I found this very ironic because I previously supported the death penalty. One moment changed my entire perspective on the issue and made me realize the evilness behind the death penalty. My ten-year-old brother asked me last year why we have the death penalty. As I attempted to explain to him, the arguments for the death penalty did not make sense. When you are forced to explain something to a child, you began to realize the extent to which society has already shaped your thinking on an issue and you begin to justify such issues. There was no means for me to explain why we have the death penalty without justifying that getting revenge in the form of justice is acceptable. The death penalty is very hypocritical and reinforces the concept of retaliation and individualism. We tell children during school, if someone hurts you, you do not hurt them back. However, we are using murder, as a means of showing murder is wrong. That makes absolutely no sense.