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Mercutio insists he won’t move for anyone. Romeo approaches, and Tybalt says his “man” has arrived. Mercutio, offended, rises to Tybalt’s taunt. Tybalt’s verbal attacks against Mercutio are designed to taunt and play upon Mercutio’s own proclivity for sexual jokes and puns.
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As they walk in the street under the boiling sun, Benvolio suggests to Mercutio that they go indoors, fearing that a brawl will be unavoidable should they encounter Capulet men. Mercutio replies that Benvolio has as quick a temper as any man in Italy, and should not criticize others for their short fuses. Tybalt enters with a group of cronies. He a...
The sudden, fatal violence in the first scene of Act 3, as well as the buildup to the fighting, serves as a reminder that, for all its emphasis on love, beauty, and romance, Romeo and Juliet still takes place in a masculine world in which notions of honor, pride, and status are prone to erupt in a fury of conflict. The viciousness and dangers of th...
Romeos cry, O, I am fortunes fool! refers specifically to his unluckiness in being forced to kill his new wifes cousin, thereby getting himself banished (3.1.131). It also recalls the sense of fate that hangs over the play. Mercutios response to his fate, however, is notable in the ways it diverges from Romeos response. Romeo blames fate, or fortun...
Juliet resigns herself to the idea that she will die a virgin, but the Nurse reveals that Romeo is hiding at Friar Laurence’s cell and promises to go fetch him so that the marriage may be...
Mar 1, 2010 · Mercutio dies. Romeo is ashamed of himself for letting Mercutio do the fighting, and when Tybalt returns, Romeo kills him. Benvolio has a hard time getting the dazed Romeo to leave the scene. Enter Prince, attended; Montague, Capulet, their Wives, and others: Benvolio tells the Prince what happened.
Thou wilt quarrel with a man for. cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou. hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out. such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an. egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten. as addle as an egg for quarreling. Thou hast.
BENVOLIO. I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. The day is hot; the Capulets, abroad; And if we meet we shall not ’scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. BENVOLIO. I’m begging you, good Mercutio, let’s go home. It’s hot, and the Capulets are all over the place.
Enraged, Romeo predicts this day's "black fate" will lead to greater conflict between the families. Tybalt reenters, and Romeo confronts him, stating one of them must accompany Mercutio's soul to heaven. Tybalt mocks Romeo, suggesting he should join Mercutio. They fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt.
