Mercutio's Attributes

The play, Romeo and Juliet, is a very popular tragedy that many people have read or seen performed on a stage. There are many different characters with contrasting personalities that make up this complex story. Two main characters are Mercutio and Benvolio, and they both play a major role in the events that take place in this play. Mercutio is a foil to Benvolio and we can see how these two people have opposite qualities and will react differently to difficult situations. Conflicts in the play will show us how Mercutio is hot headed and quick to act, while Benvolio is calm and logical.

In Act 3, Mercutio and Benvolio are out walking in Verona. Benvolio asks Mercutio to go inside before an incident like before happens again with the Capulet. Mercutio tells him to stop criticizing others and that not all Capulet are going to want to start a fight. Tybalt then enters the scene. Tybalt approaches the two Montague men and asks to speak with one of them. Mercutio, not very happy with Tybalt speaking to them, starts to mess with him. Romeo enters next. Tybalt starts talking to Romeo and calls him a villain. Romeo tries to keep peace with Tybalt as he asks Romeo to draw his sword. Mercutio decides to fight Tybalt since Romeo does not want to. The two men fight. Romeo interferes and tries to stop the fight. In doing so, Tybalt was able to get under Romeo’s arm and stab Mercutio, killing him. Before passing, Mercutio curses both families and Tybalt runs off. Romeo wants revenge on Tybalt. When Tybalt comes back, Romeo draws his sword and the two of them fight. Romeo ends up killing Tybalt and Benvolio tells him to leave the scene before many people start to notice. The prince enters the scene. Benvolio explains what happened. He also explains that Romeo was trying to keep peace, but Lady Capulet thinks he is lying. Prince decides to exile Romeo from Verona instead of giving death as a punishment.

This example only gives the audience a teasing taste for what is about to happen as a result of Tybalt’s short temper. Fast forwarding to act three, Tybalt’s impulsive behavior is far more drastic and impactful to the play this time around. At the town square of Verona, Tybalt and his compatriots run into Mercutio and Romeo. Still infuriated by Romeo’s presence at his family’s ball, Tybalt decides to vent his anger by challenging Romeo to battle him. When Romeo backs away, Mercutio steps in and fights with Tybalt. After a while of fighting, the distressed Romeo steps in to break it up, but, “Tybalt, reaching under Romeo’s arm, stabs Mercutio and flees” (3.1.82). Mercutio announces that, “I am hurt” (3.1.83), and eventually dies. After witnessing his friend be slaughtered, Romeo seeks revenge on Tybalt, and subsequently slays the murderer of his best friend. As a result of Romeo’s actions, the inamorato is banished to Mantua. When putting the pieces together, the audience watching the play can see how Tybalt, and not Romeo, is responsible for the banishment. Romeo was simply seeking to avenge the life of his friend, while Tybalt’s actions were a direct result of violent thinking. Tybalt’s choice to fight and kill one of the play’s main characters highlights the high degree of his vicious personality. Tybalt’s actions end up dooming the peaceful partnership of Romeo and Juliet and thus the outcome of the play takes a turn for the

Furthermore, Romeo let anger get to him to make him kill Tybalt. Benvolio said to Romeo before the fight not to fight Tybalt or get in the way, which led to Mercutio dying because Romeo wanted the fight to stop. Romeo then got aggressive and fought

In the classic novel “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo needs to solve several complicated conflicts, and to help him perform these actions he has two close friends, Benvolio and Mercutio. While they both help Romeo to solve his problems, Benvolio and Mercutio are drastically different characters. Benvolio is calm and rational, while Mercutio is hotheaded, impetuous and rash. Consequently, Mercutio and Benvolio are foils for each other, but when acting together, they help Romeo a lot.

During the ball the cousin of Juliet, Tybalt, notices Romeo. He wanted to challenge him at the ball, but Lord Capulet forbade him from doing so. Tybalt, still wanting to fight Romeo, he sends out a challenge to fight Romeo. In Act 3, Scene 1, Benvolio and Mercutio are stopped by Tybalt who says: “Gentlemen p, good e’en. A word with one of you?”(III, i, 39). Mercutio responds with: “And but one word and a blow”(III, i, 40-41). Tybalt’s question was obviously about Romeo and how to find him, but Mercutio never gives him a chance. Because of the feud and Mercutio’s rash response, they duel. The duel ends with the death of Mercutio because Romeo attempted to stop the fight. Mercutio’s death caused Romeo to get angry which causes the death of Tybalt and the banishment of Romeo. Mercutio’s hot headed response causes his own death and Tybalt, which then causes Romeo to be

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, the cousin of Juliet, has a quick temper and frequently acts on impulse. When he first appears, he arrives at the brink of a street fight, and when Benvolio tries to calm him down he gets riled up and says, “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./ Have at thee, coward!” (1:1, 71-73) When Prince Escalus arrives to see this fight, he raises the consequences on the warring families. He will no longer stand by without doing something and threatens, “If ever you disturb our streets again,/ Your lives shall pay the the forfeit of the peace” (1:1, 98-99). The stakes of the family feud have been taken to a new level, whereas before the Prince was just mad but didn’t act on that anger, now the families are threatened with death if they act out again, all because Tybalt and some Capulet servants jumped into a fight. Even after the Prince’s threats, of which Tybalt knows the stakes, Tybalt comes to fight Romeo the next day but instead finds Benvolio and

Throughout Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet characters who show importance adapt their own traits, such as Tybalt who is seen as pugnacious and violent and Benvolio who appears to be a peacekeeper and an all around righteous person. These characteristics are seen in the scene where Benvolio is trying to break up the fight, “I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / or manage it to part these men with me.” (Shakespeare 1.1.61-62) In this case Benvolio was trying to help keep the peace by giving them a choice of helping him stop the fight, which could have stopped plenty of complications and tragedies from arising. Tybalt portrays his characteristics in the same scene as Benvolio, “ What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!” (Shakespeare 1.1.63-65) In the previous action Tybalt displayed

Mercutio, a relative of Prince Escalus, only appears in four of Romeo and Juliet's 24 scenes, but is able to create a profound and lasting impression on the audience. This is due to his extremely extroverted and imaginative personality, which lends one to believe that his Myers-Briggs personality type would be that of an ENFP (Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Prospective). Mercutio's spontaneity and extensive imagination is displayed during his 'Queen Mab' speech, when he creates an entire story about "the fairies' midwife" that "gallops night by night/Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love" (1.4.54/70-71). Mercutio essentially creates a conversational tangent, in which he rambles about Queen Mab for several minutes, but only actually communicates a simple point: that he thinks dreams are stupid.

. 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.

Additionally, after Romeo’s marriage with Juliet he gets in the middle of a fight. If Romeo did not engage in the brawl between Mercutio his best friend and Tybalt his opposing rival, they would still have a fair chance at survival. Mercutio engages in a fight with Tybalt on Romeo’s behalf because Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt, since Tybalt is now Romeo’s cousin-in-law. In addition, Romeo attempts to break up the progressive fight, but his actions are futile. Furthermore, Romeo getting among Mercutio and Tybalt does more harm than good because Mercutio dies. The only explanation of how Mercutio dies is that Tybalt is able to pierce Mercutio’s chest under Romeo’s arm. Romeo blocks Mercutio’s view, leaving him defenseless and feeble.

Good Mercutio!” (3.1.80-84). Both Benvolio and Romeo tried using reasoning to stop the unneeded fight between Mercutio and Tybalt, however, the two were so set on fighting that they did not listen. Despite knowing the consequences, they let their emotions take hold of them and fought. Using emotion instead of logic in a situation where someone can be harmed is a good way to get into a lot of trouble, and also face extreme consequences.

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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.