Mercutio's View On Love

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

At the time Mercutio makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family's arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that Romeo may have the opportunity to see his current love, Rosaline, whom they know has been invited to the Capulet's masque that evening.

In this particular scene of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio and Benvolio are searching for Romeo and are trying to get him to come back to them. Benvolio asks Mercutio to call for Romeo. Mercutio, to call him, pretends to conjure him as if he were summoning a spirit. Through this, we see a sarcastic, mocking tone towards Romeo from Mercutio. The topic in this scene is of love and Mercutio does indeed scorn at love. Benvolio initially interprets Mercutio's talk as provoking Romeo and thinks that “if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him”(2.1.25) Things are intended, by Mercutio, to lure Romeo back to them with fantasies of Rosaline such as images of “her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh”(2.1.22). This speech is a little breaker between the

As a friend of Romeo’s, Mercutio supports the Montague’s in the ancient feud. An example of Mercutio defending the Montague’s is when Tybalt, a member of the loathed Capulet family, abuses Romeo and Mercutio intervenes on Romeo’s behalf. Attempting to restore peace, Romeo gets between the two combatants and Mercutio “hath got his mortal hurt” (Page 149; Act 3, Scene 1) on Romeo’s account. In spite of his “life shall pay the forfeit of peace” (page 17; Act 1, Scene 1), Romeo seeks revenge on Tybalt as he loves his murdered friend. As Romeo kills Tybalt out of love for Mercutio, Shakespeare suggests that love conquered the thought of being penalized with death.

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo entertains us as one of the most interesting characters in addition to one of the main ones. At the beginning of the book, Romeo claims to be miserably in love with Rosaline. Within the next 12 hours, he has completely forgotten about Rosaline and decides that he is in love with Juliet Capulet instead. After saying to his friends that he will never love anyone else, he certainly changes his mind quickly. Romeo proves himself a romantic, emotional character, who makes decisions based completely on present feelings and preferences. This likely will be a cause of his suicide in the end of the book.

The Bravest of All During the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. cautioned, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Just like Martin Luther King Jr. tried to drive out segregation with compassion in the U.S., the love between Romeo and Juliet was a way to drive out the hatred between the two families. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, love inspired courage and change by making the two families see what they did wrong clearly.

Romeo is deliberately shown to move from one love to another with surprising ease. At the start of the play, Romeo is almost completely unresponsive due to his desolation over Rosaline. Despite that, just a day later, Romeo is in high spirits. When asked whether he is in love with Rosaline still, he responds “No; I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe” (II.iii.47). Romeo fails to see the irony in how he declares he is in love with Rosaline one day, but states he is in love with Juliet the next. This irony is not lost on Friar Lawrence, who chides Romeo that his “love lies truly not in [his] heart, but in his eyes” (II.iii.71-2). Mercutio too, belittles Romeo’s claims to true love, telling him the story of Queen Mab, a fairy who sprinkles dreams “through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love” (I.iv.76). Mercutio tells Romeo that he falls in love easily because he wants to fall in love, not because he actually has a connection to his boo. Had Romeo been more conscientious, he would have realized that while he did care about Juliet, she is not worth taking his life over, and he would have moved on in later days. He could have even enjoyed a happy ending with Juliet as soon as she woke up. Romeo inflates his feelings for Juliet so much that he values them over his own life, and in doing so, relinquishes any chance of having a normal life after Juliet’s

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights of his time well-known for the blending of tragedy and comedy provided in his plays. The combination of those two genres is getting evident in Romeo and Juliet and mostly personified by two distinct characters. Mercutio,a close friend of Romeo and the Nurse,the personal servant and guardian of Juliet function as the contradictory paraller of the tragic romantic couple in terms of innocent,pure and vulnerable love. Starting with Mercutio he is depicted to be the exact opposite of Romeo when it comes to the love approach. His anti-romantic,agressive and witty disposition of love that dominates his character comes to contradict to Romeo's fresh,romantic and pure aura of love.

Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is incredibly good at portraying the problematic ‘young love’ that the two main characters (Romeo and Juliet) have throughout the play. Shakespeare is very good at trying to convey the smaller details of love, using techniques such as imagery using dark and light to show contrast; as well as power. In the play, Romeo and Juliet are from two different families that are “both alike in dignity”. They are both descendants of rich and powerful men (men were seen as more important when the play was written) and both families have a “feud”, a problem with each other.

One can only describe Mercutio as the friend everyone has had in their life at one point or another. He is loyal to a fault, even though he might be anticlimactic in some instances. At the beginning of the play Mercutio is there when Romeo is distraught over his love for Rosaline. He might not say the appropriate words Romeo might seek, but he does provide him with point of views that he might not get anywhere else. While Romeo seeks advice where they talk to him about everlasting and pure love, Mercutio believes that love is only shown through sex. For him sex is love and vice versa.

Although one of the main themes of the play was love, Mercutio’s opinion on it is contradicting. Anyone who has ever heard of Romeo and Juliet knows that the story involves young lovers that fall in love so deeply they die for it, Mercutio, however, has a different outlook on love than love sick Romeo. Mercutio mocks Romeo’s idea of love in the story with the Queen Mab speech and describes love as a physical pursuit. His opinions contrasts with Romeo’s, making Mercutio a foil and helps us better comprehend Romeo’s character. Mercutio goes on to talk about dreams in his speech saying they are just a man’s desires and often leads to false hope for dreamers. This makes Romeo’s dream of his love for Rosaline doubtful, therefore

In the beginning he is heartbroken when the love of his life turns out to not love him the way he does her. He is consoled by his good friends Benvolio and Mercutio who later think he is being dramatic over the whole thing. As the play goes on Romeo and Juliet fall more and more in “love”, it becomes clear that the only reason Romeo loves Juliet is because Juliet loves him back unlike Rosaline. “Her I love now Doth grace for grace and love for love allow. The other did not so( Romeo Act 4 scene 1).”

The tragic play Romeo & Juliet is famous for love—the love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other. But Shakespeare created something deeper and more complex than a play about compulsive teenagers; he created a play about the complex web of choices, loyalties, and loves that two teens have to face in the petite city of Verona. Both Romeo and Juliet have a difficult time making choices, but the choices that face Juliet are of greater consequence and require more immediate action than the choices that face Romeo.

Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, tells the heart wrenching love story of a young man, Romeo, falling hopelessly in love with a girl named Juliet, but there is one issue. These lovers belong to two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, who despise each other. But this fact does not hinder their love for each other. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates the different view of love the varying characters poses. He shows how love is an abstract concept that everyone defines differently. Shakespeare does this by depicting the contrasting perspectives on love of Romeo, a foolish young boy, and Friar Lawrence, a wiser, older, priest. Ultimately, this suggests that as one ages, they gain greater knowledge on the true

Love is one of the only things that nearly every human being is capable of feeling. Like many aspects of human lives, views on love differ from every individual. Nowhere is this more present than in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo, a member of the Montague family, and Juliet, a member of the rivaling Capulet family, find themselves in the circumstances of falling madly in love with each other. Throughout the play and through the different relationships encountered, Shakespeare’s attitude toward love differs between how Romeo is portrayed to love Juliet, how Juliet is displayed to love Romeo, and how Juliet’s nurse is shown to view love on its own.