Theme Of Violence In Romeo And Juliet

The next day, Benvolio and Romeo have an encounter with Tybalt, who is still out to get Romeo for crashing the Capulet’s party. When Romeo refuses to duel with Tybalt, Mercutio steps in and accepts the duel. This duel, however, ultimately led to the killing of Mercutio by Tybalt. Out of guilt for Mercutio, Romeo attacks Tybalt killing him.

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. 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.

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In contrast, Mercutio attempts to stop Tybalt’s thirst for vengeance when he tries to duel Romeo but ultimately gets killed in the process of trying to save his good friend from being killed by Tybalt which causes Romeo to take vengeance upon Tybalt by killing him.

Tybalt began insulting Romeo trying to get him to fight but he kept refusing, until Mercutio stepped in and fought Tybalt himself. Mercutio was then killed and Romeo begins fighting Tybalt and avenging his best friend. When Romeo kills Tybalt the Prince comes in and instead of giving him a death sentence, only exiles him to Mantua. When the Prince announces Romeos punishment he says “ And for that offence/ Immediately we do exile him hence. ”(3.1.185-186).

In the play Tybalt challenges Romeo to a fight but Romeo doesn’t accept it. Mercutio fights Tybalt because Romeo won’t. Mercutio is talking back to Tybalt leading them to both draw their swords, he says,

Even though one could not possibly think that a best friend could kill another best friend, it was Mercutio’s decisions that lead to Romeo’s death. Even Mercutio himself paid for his actions by dying before Romeo. However, Mercutio’s death also lead to Romeo’s death in ways that even Romeo didn’t know about. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, challenged Romeo to a duel a few days before Mercutio’s death. Days later, Tybalt came to fulfill that challenge. However, Romeo, being newly integrated into the Capulet family, did not want to hurt his new relative. Mercutio was a witness to Romeo’s behavior and took it as an insult that Romeo did not take the chance to hurt a Capulet. Mercutio then declares, “O calm, dishonerable, vile submission!...Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?” (III.i.76 - 78). In this instance, Mercutio has just challenged Tybalt to a duel instead of letting Romeo just walk away. This simple line causes Mercutio to be slain in front of Romeo and Tybalt is left alive. This then forces Romeo to mourn and avenge Mercutio before he even has time to think. As a result of Mercutio’s death, Romeo then murders Tybalt, his new relative. This causes the Prince to banish Romeo and prompts other events to occur. An additional occasion as to when Mercutio’s antagonistic behavior comes into play is when they are on the way to the Capulet’s party. Romeo is still depressed about Rosaline at this point at

Tybalt then does not listen to Romeo and still wants to fight. Mercutio steps in, in order to help out the matter of Romeo not wanting to fight. The whole chain of events of Mercutio and Tybalt go fighting in the streets. ‘Romeo-

Mercutio taunted, “O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?” The fight was started by Mercutio and his hot-headed nature. Because Mercutio picked the fight with Tybalt, he forced Romeo’s hand to fight with Tybalt and got Romeo exiled! Because of the exile, the Friar and Juliet had to make a plan to get the two lovers together. The plan, caused by the fight, ended up leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Again, Mercutio’s selfish actions managed to lead into the reason of the couple's’

In Act 2 of the play, Mercutio & Romeo encounter Tybalt; conflict escalates until both Mercutio & Tybalt engage in a swordfight, which kills Mercutio. An enraged Romeo engages, killing Tybalt. Tybalt seems to blame in this situation, however, Mercutio’s death was only caused by accident when Romeo intervened in the fight that Mercutio started. His cockieness led to his & Tybalt’s deaths, as well as the banishment of Romeo, allowing the rest of the play to take place.

Now, Tybalt has come to fight Romeo for revenge. Mercutio stood up to Tybalt and said that he will fight in the place of Romeo. Tybalt announces with pride, “I am for you”(III.i.78) At this moment Tybalt has decided to show his power in the act of fighting, he does. Tybalt kills Mercutio, and by doing this it provokes Romeo.

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Fate is not on their side, however, and they eventually choose to kill themselves rather than live without each other. The book is written by William Shakespeare one of the greatest English playwrights in the world. In the play violence cannot solve problems, it can only make things worse. Violence cannot solve problems because in the book Romeo and Juliet many people have died due to violence including Mercutio. Mercutio is Romeo's best friend and was killed by Tybalt by being stabbed, Mercutio said on his deathbed “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” (3.1.97).

The directors, when creating William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, intended to emphasize the theme of violence by incorporating stunning visuals, a clear setting, and beneficial additions and deletions to Shakespeare’s original text.