Benvolio

ego. This causes the characters to create paradox. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is introduced in a state of depression due to the fact that he craves Rosaline, while she does not love him back because she practices chastity. When Romeo’s cousin, Benvolio, advises Romeo to forget Rosaline, Romeo goes as far as to say, “Tis…

He is embarrassed when Lord Capulet won’t let him fight Romeo ,since it would end in their deaths. Tybalt is so embarrassed that he goes to Romeo the next day to brawl with him but Romeo is not home when Tybalt gets there. Mercutio and his friend Benvolio are there though. Mercutio taunts Tybalt. Since Tybalt is so easily angered, this starts a duel that ends in Mercutio’s…

accidental or intentional death. They died because of one person to blame. The person to blame is Romeo. Because he first got Mercutio killed in the fight with Tybalt. He got in the way of the fight that distracted Mercutio and got him killed. Then, after Benvolio dragged Mercutio away, Romeo got in a fight with Tybalt and then Romeo killed Tybalt on the spot. After that, Romeo got banished by the prince, and was told if he came back, he would have his head. After the banishment, The Nurse told…

Escalus, close friend to Romeo Montague and cousin to the Prince of Verona. Tybalt Capulet was found lying dead in the fountain with two bullet holes in the chest. By the time ambulance came by, it was too late. In an interview with the distraught Benvolio Montague, an eye witness, stated that Tybalt started the fight. He was quoted saying, “Mercutio and I were just relaxing and having some fun at the beach. That’s when…

Tybalt in a fight, and in the end he ends up killing himself. Therefore, this is the reason why I believe Romeo is the one to blame. Romeo is to blame for the death of himself and Juliet because he goes to the enemy's party. I say this because Benvolio convinces him to go to the party to look at other girls, to get rid of the other lad he is in love with. The quote that proves this is I will show you shining at the feast’’)(Shakespeare Act 1 799). While he is attending that party he…

During playwright William Shakespeare’s time, the Elizabethan Age, there were strict gender roles for both men and female. In his some of his memorable writings such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, traits considered feminine or masculine were often crossed over despite the gender of the character. Shakespeare is known as a modern writer in the sense that many of his ideas were unlike others from his time, but relate very much to ideas today. The theme of gender, their roles in society and their…

miscommunication between characters as they try to express feelings toward one another or send a message but is misinterpreted by the other character, leading to the path that was shown in the play. The First example of this is shown when Mercutio and Benvolio are sitting around a fountain on a hot day and talk about Romeo, misinterpreting his disappearance as sadness for Rosaline, believing that he is Mad and in no shape to fight Tybalt. Scene 2.4.4-5, 13-16: Mercutio- Why, that same pale…

Capulet orders his servant to invite the entire guest he wrote it down on the sheet of paper to the party. Unfortunately, the servant was uneducated and he was unable to read the list. He then bumps into Romeo and Benvolio and asks them for help. Romeo reads the list for the servant where, Benvolio tells Romeo to sneak into the party, to see if his Rosaline matches up the other beauties attending. If this had never happened, Romeo and Juliet would have never seen each other and they would have…

Fate is a series of events that is out of a person’s control, these events can lead to something great or something absolutely horrible. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, two ill-fated lovers who were not in the best hands of fate. Fate was ultimately responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly, fate began in the very beginning of the play. Love sicken Romeo grieves over his love for Rosaline. Unfortunately, Rosaline didn’t feel the same about him. “Why, such…

Shakespeare uses metaphors and similes to express Mercutio’s viewpoint on love and dreams, that love is a physical battle, and that dreams are small and insignificant. Shakespeare uses similes to show Mercutio’s rough viewpoint on love through Mercutio’s conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “ If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down” (1.4.27-28), he is portraying that love is a physical and mental battle. He is saying that love is…