Mercutio In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet go through a tragedy of love because their families are huge rivals and leads their love to be a secret from everyone. In which this feud between the families led them to have a rough time with things and eventually their own lives to be taken but in an immature matter. In this play there are some memorable moments from some memorable people but who is the most memorable? Well I would say it is Mercutio. Mercutio is the most memorable because he is caring, funny, and tough. Mercutio had many ways of showing that he was caring to people, like lets take Romeo for example, Tybalt wanted to fight and kill Romeo and but then whenever the encounter happened, Mercutio stepped in and started to play fight with Tybalt. Mercutio says”Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?” And shortly after that they had their little play duel, Mercutio was slain unintentionally. When he was slain nobody thought that he was actually hurt because he always plays way too much and he said “I am hurt. …show more content…
I am sped.Is he gone, and hath nothing?” And everybody thought it was all just a part of an act he was pulling off.
Mercutio also had quite the amount of ways of showing that he funny. Whenever something bad would happen, he would always try and make people feel better by using his humor. Mercutio said”Come, sir, your passado” but when he said that he was about to duel Tybalt but he was doing so in a joking matter to maybe that Tybalt would not want to fight Romeo and take up that duel instead. Also, whenever Mercutio said “That's as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams.” And what he was meaning by that was that he was saying to Romeo that his case was ridiculous but using a funny

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