Essay on Relationship between Mercutio and Romeo

Aristotle proposed what is believed to be the first definition of a true tragedy. Specifically, he states that a tragedy triggers great pity and fear caused by the main characters’ actions alone. Likewise, a true tragedy lacks coincidence and fate plays little in the overall play. William Shakespeare writes the play of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in which the audience knows the destiny of these two tragic heroes from the very beginning. Although this play is tragic knowing that the lives of two lovers are lost, it is not a tragedy as Romeo and Juliet are not solely responsible for their own deaths. Destiny is determined through the hands of greater forces than that of Romeo and Juliet, making this play merely tragic and not a true

The Role of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, each character plays a specific role in driving the action forward and shaping the play's theme. One secondary character, Mercutio, is essential to the play. Mercutio is the Prince's kinsman, but more importantly, he is Romeo's friend and confidant. Mercutio's concern is always for Romeo and for peace between the two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Mercutio is the first to see that Romeo is deeply in love.

The play, Romeo and Juliet has many deaths, which are usually suicides because they have lost someone they love. The novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham also has people risking their lives or even suicide because they will or are not able to live without the person they love. However, the short story, “No Renewal” shows that Douglas doesn’t appreciate his new lifestyle because he already made his old lifestyle part of his identity. All these texts suggest that when one loses someone or something that is part of one’s identity, one may willingly welcome death.

In one if William Shakespeare's plays, "Romeo and Juliet", Mercutio, Romeo's best friend, makes a speech, the Queen Mab speech. According to Mercutio, Queen Mab is a tiny, mischievous fairy that rides around in an "empty hazelnut" as a chariot, drawn by a "team of little atomi" (I.IV. 59-69) and makes sleepers dream about good or bad things, for example, love. “Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love; On curtsies straight; o’er lawyer’ fingers, who straight dream of fees: o’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dreams…” (I.IV.74-77)

Love is spoken about a lot in all of these stories, one thing that these stories talk about is love can come with a cost. As you will see in these stories ( Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Duty) there will be death due to love.

Throughout the works of William Shakespeare, the main character is complemented with another character that acts or serves as the protagonist's foil. In Romeo & Juliet, the protagonist, Romeo, is fickle, idealistic, impractical and naïve. To balance Romeo as a character, Shakespeare creates Mercutio; a good friend of Romeo's who acts as his conscience. While Romeo has an idealistic perspective of the world and more specifically of love, Mercutio balances Romeo's weak points as a dreamer. Mercutio is pragmatic, sensible, and clever and a master on word play. Throughout the play, Mercutio mocks Romeo's naïve and ridiculous fascination with love. Early in the play, Romeo goes on and on about his deep infatuation with the beautiful Rosaline.

1. In this Scene, the nurse is shown to have a really close bond with Juliet. She seems to have a better relation than her mother. The nurse lost her daughter “Susan”(1.3 Line 20) as she was the same “age”(1.1 Line 21) as Juliet, which makes the nurse closer to Juliet and treats her as a daughter.

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William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” takes place in Verona- a city in Italy which is governed by a prince. There is also a Friar named Laurence, who is a religious figure that citizens go to for advice and to be married. In the City lives the Capulets and the Montagues who have been disputing for generations. Both families have children and one child from each family are the protagonists- Romeo is a member of the Montagues and Juliet is a member of the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet will end up falling for each other. However, they end up dying young because Friar Laurence married them in private, he gave Juliet a potion which knocked her out which lead to her and Romeo’s suicides, and he trusted Friar John to deliver the letter and

I have chosen to write about Mercutio for this assignment. Mercutio, being Romeo's best friend, certainly has an influence on him. Whether is making raunchy jokes and comments that makes Romeo's mood better, or whether it's Mercutio trying to change Romeo's views on love and relationships. Mercutio's influence on Romeo may not be seen physically, but it definitely shows in mental aspects. The actions of Mercutio impact the ending in numerous ways.

Mercutio Is responsible for everything that as happened so far. It's his fault because of the way he handled the the fight. in many ways he used his own death along with Tybalt's death. He also cuales Romeo's banishment. It's all his fault everything.

All in all, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet consists of family love, such as when Juliet married the son of her family’s enemy and when the Prince got personally involved in the family feud because his relative, Mercutio, dies in one of their arguments, friendship love, such as when the loyalty Mercutio and Romeo gets Mercutio killed and Romeo banished, and romantic love, such as when Romeo was madly in love with Rosaline and when Juliet and Romeo fall in love and get married. In Romeo and Juliet love is emotion of deep affection usually if not always accompanied by conflict. Love and conflict are the same as comedy and tragedy; two sides of the same coin.

A friend is defined by an important individual who defends and advises their companion. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo has two friends, Benvolio and Mercutio, who are undoubtedly different, especially when it comes to their comes to friendships with Romeo. In many instances, there is substantial evidence exhibited to prove that Mercutio is the better companion. Mercutio counsels Romeo and tries to brighten his downhearted state when he is depressed. In addition, he is a humorous character that enlivens Romeo’s attitude.

There are many characters to blame but there is only one character that has many reasons to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet kill themselves and the character to blame for their deaths is Mercutio. You could blame many other characters like: Romeo, Friar Lawrence, or even the Clown. I picked Mercutio because he had the most reasons of why you could blame him like: he made Romeo go to the Capulet party and he just had to fight Tybalt.

The play "Romeo and Juliet" was written between 1589 and 1595. Mercutio was a key character in the play and all of the audience enjoyed Mercutio's scenes. The rudeness appealed to the groundlings and the word play appealed to the more educated. Mercutio is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Esauls and Count Paris. Mercutio mocks Romeo’s vision of love and the poetic devices he uses to express his emotions. Mercutio character is described as loyal, devoted, funny and witty. He is an anti-romantic character who likes Juliet’s nurse, regards love as an exclusively physical pursuit. For Mercutio love means sex and women are born to please men. Mercutio thinks that dreams are like illusions meant to tempt men’s souls fall apart when he wakes. Mercutio is neither a Montague nor a Couplet. Because he is a friend of Romeo, he stands on Montague’s side.