Who Is to Blame for Mercutio's Death

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.

Even though he was defending Romeos honour, he should have not fought in the streets then he wouldn’t be dead and then Romeo would have not gone after Tybalt and slain him. For Mercutio he was innocent but he still had rage over Tybalt that he couldn’t have let go off: “Good king of cats nothing but one of your nine lives” (Act3, Scene 1, Line 45). He should have left Tybalt alone instead he drew out his sword, after Tybalt drew his to Romeo. Since Mercutio was the princes’ cousin he could have told the Prince and could have got Tybalt banished or worse executed. Another mistake Mercutio made was when he brought Romeo to a Capulets party to look at other women and forget about Rosaline. This plan backfires; Romeo does forget about Rosaline but has fallen in love with the Capulets daughter Juliet. Therefore, even though Mercutio is not irresponsible but showed rash and premature

Firstly Tybalt's temper led himself to feel insulted when he saw Romeo (a Montague) at the feast. his Uncle, Lord Capulet did not even feel angry or offended at Montague's presence in his house who told Tybalt that Romeo is said: "to be a virtuous and well-governed youth".

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.

In Romeo’s lines here he is yelling at Tybalt for killing Mercutio and says that he has to pay for it. After that Romeo and Tybalt get in a fight which leads to the downfall of Tybalt. After the death of Tybalt the Prince banishes Romeo for his crime. The fight between Tybalt (Capulet) and Mercutio (Montague) leads to the downfall of Tybalt and Mercutio. Also Romeo gets banished for these actions

In act 3 Tybalt explains how romeo is the problem for mostly everything. Tybalt is telling Mercutio the only reason he has for fighting him as well is because he consorts with Romeo. “Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo”(3.1.42) Mercutio would have never died if it wasn't for Romeo. And after Romeo sees Mercutio die he kills Tybalt with his own hand.

(Mercutio, Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 90-91) In this Scene, Mercutio is left dying from Tybalt, but he blames Romeo for partially getting in the way of their fight. He curses both Romeo and Juliet’s family because of their hatred for each other, and this leads us to the ending when the families are finally in harmony, which is after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. These lines from the book show that their deaths is not just by sheer accident, but actual

Mercutio is fun and witty personality that entertains the reader throughout the entire play, however his careless nature may be to blame for the death for Romeo, Juliet and even Tybalt and Paris. Although he is a likeable character, Mercutio was the type of person to tease and upset the others whenever he had a chance. This was an issue because he would constantly bother his friends and pressure them into doing something which they did not want to do. He also has a carefree attitude which has probably gotten into many fights throughout his lifetime.

They both died because of their extensive lust for war, but not only that. Mercutio died for his blood ruthless instinct. Tybalt died because of his constant quest for retribution. Mercutio challenges Tybalt, as he is trying to look for Romeo, “O calm, dishonourable, vile submission, Alla Stoccata carries it away. Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk”. With Romeo in mind, Mercutio wants to fight. He loves the thrill, he wants death. Who most fit than the violent Capulet, Tybalt, he passes it off as a heroic scene. He could have done nothing, but his ego wants this, we have seen in past scenes Mercutio cares not for Romeo, enough to risk his life. Often humiliating and insulting Romeo. He was inevitably going to duel Tybalt, he just needed a push, his death, even though constantly being blamed on Romeo, is Mercutio's fault. After he kills Mercutio, Tybalt says before his demise,“Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here Shalt with him hence”. His own arrogant pride has really proved to be his fatal weakness, not only did he kill himself, but Mercutio as well, this arrogant pride is the reason the tragedy happens. In my experience with the story people have come to believe that Tybalt has no problems with the Montagues, but he tries to prove himself to his uncle, he does this to feed his ego. Glancing over both characters; they might seem very

Mercutio may seem to be a character that just adds humor and acts a jokester in the play but he served a stronger purpose as he was the catalyst that ended six people’s lives. Mercutio played a big part in how the story of Romeo and Juliet played out as he pushed the story forward. Mercutio is much more than just a supporting character in Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” because his character was a close friend of Romeo and had a large effect on Romeo’s life. He started a fight with Tybalt to defend Romeo, but was killed during the duel which then caused Romeo to avenge him by killing Tybalt. The death of Tybalt causes the exile of Romeo which is then followed by a the death of 4 more characters.

Even though Tybalt, who came from the Capulets, was the one who killed Mercutio, both families were responsible for the death. Mercutio’s last words portray that his death was Romeo’s fault, as much as Tybalt’s fault, for closing the gap between the two rival families. In Act 3 Scene 1, Tybalt called Romeo a villain, “No better term than this: thou art a villain” (3.1.57.) During that time, being called a villain was a terrible insult which could have started a fight. Romeo decided to ignore this comment, from Tybalt because of his relationship with Juliet. Mercutio on the other hand

The first reason why Mercutio died is a lack of information both on Romeo and Mercutio’s part. Mercutio says, “Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline! Torments him so, that he will sure run mad,” (2.4.4-6) then Benvolio says, “Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared,” (2.4.11-12) and then Mercutio replies, “Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead,” (2.4.13) Romeo neglected to tell Mercutio of his marriage with Juliet, and Mercutio failed to tell Romeo about the letter from

Mercutio is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he was edging on the tybalt. In act 3 scene 1 Mercutio was showing his butt and making jokes to make Tybalt even more anger. Mercutio says “ And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow”. This shows that Mercutio about caused his death.

Mercutio died because of Tybalt being angry at romeo for going to the party and trying to fight Romeo, but romeo does not want to fight because he just married juliet and he can not fight her cousin. Mercutio is mad so he draws his sword and tells tybalt that he would kill him so tybalt draws his sword and fights Mercutio. Romeo tries to stop the fight by getting in between them but Tybalt gets a cheap hit and kills Mercutio under Romeo's arm. Romeo then gets mad and kills Tybalt. He is then punished by banishment. This proves that Feuds can be very dangerous. This is also ironic because Romeo said he would not kill Tybalt

At some point in the text, Mercutio is cursing both the houses,”Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague O’ both your houses! They have made worms out of me. I have it and soundly too. Your houses!” (Shakespeare, 3.1.112-115). As Mercutio’s final wish, is blaming his death on the hatred of the houses. This is the first death in the whole play, which is from the plague (Romeo and Juliet's love) where he curses them for basically killing him. He asks Benvolio to find him a house because both of them are just as bad and dies as a side character. Some people may rebuke that love has created them and was not made from hatred. Even if their parents were in love doesn’t mean that their children wouldn’t follow their footsteps because at the end it is that love actually starts the driving force of hatred. Later, Montague is speaking after the death of the star crossed lovers,”Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath,” (Shakespeare, 5.3.232-234). This is the final death of the whole play causing 5 deaths in total because of the plague. This hatred was so strong that it even broke the starters of the plagues which were the Capulets and Montagues themselves. With all this hatred, love couldn’t preserve and was tainted with sadness and