Mercutio

The character of Mercutio, in the 1996 movie adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet”, was the one character that was the most intriguing. In the film Mercutio is introduced while wearing a skirt, heels, and red lipstick; which made his first impression the most striking compared to the other characters. At the beginning, Mercutio brought a bit of comedic relief to the film, as he distracted viewers from the heartbreak Romeo was going through with Rosaline. While Mercutio was flamboyant and…

Romeo and Mercutio are is my favorite foil in Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the play while Romeo is sappy and feeble, Mercutio is making jokes and ridiculous speeches(Act 1 S 4 line: 53 Queen Mab speech and Act 1 S4 line 25-29 “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn. If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.”) This example demonstrates that Mercutio is a rambling joker that can’t take…

often the character to make hasty decisions, one of his best friends can be found to do so too. He and Mercutio are foils for one another, their opposite traits push each other to do things they wouldn’t normally do and help to reveal both their positive and negative traits. In the beginning, the audience is given a glance of Romeo’s emotional side and his views on love. Meanwhile, when Mercutio appears…

The Queen Mab speech, spoken by Mercutio, the man whose actions would never betray his name, has often been heralded as one of the most poetic and beautiful speeches in Romeo and Juliet. This speech, when channeled through a talented actor, shows Mercutio to be a mad, tortured man, or, at the very least, one who has a fond distaste for dreams. Mercutio utters this diatribe at a transitional point in the play. Previous to this scene, Romeo has mourned over the never consummated love of Rosalinde,…

Throughout the course of the play, the audience witnesses Romeo’s metamorphosis from adolescence to adulthood because of his love for Juliet and unfortunate involvement in the Capulet-Montague feud. We watch him transform from a character to be mocked and ridiculed into a tragic hero. Initially, Romeo is presented as a Petrarchan lover, a word derived from the Italian poet, Petrarch, meaning a man who is in in love with the idea of being in love. This term is shown through Romeo’s amorous…

but yonder that, Mercutio also serves as Romeo's dramatic fall. Mercutio is the exact reverse of Romeo, and his vulgar and humorous nature contrasts against Romeo's serious and zealous nature. We see Mercutio's entertaining nature opposing against Romeo's when Mercutio makes lewd, sexual jokes, making fun of Romeo's broken heart and his tendency to fall zealously in love. We also see Romeo and Mercutio's relationship in this act when they interchange puns. When Mercutio calls Romeo's…

Mercutio, a witty, wealthy, and fiery tempered young man can be represented by the colors black, gold, and grey. Black is a color that can represent a variety of emotions, but for Mercutio's it represents anger, more specifically Mercutio's abrupt mood swings. As stated in the text, “ O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you/... This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs/ that presses them and learns them first to bear,/ Making them women of good marriage/ This she is-” (1.4.53-94). The…

Mercutio Mercutio is one of Shakespeare's most memorable characters out of all the different characters he has included into his different plays. Mercutio is one of Romeo's best friends throughout the book. Mercutio was killed by Tybalt another important character rather early in the book but was still recognized as a one of Shakespeare's greatest creations. But what makes Mercutio such an important and memorable character in Romeo and Juliet. First,Mercutio is such a memorable character due to…

Romeo Brave Mercutio, put ye saber away and walk away. Mercutio Come on, matey, dead men tell no tales. Mercutio and Tybalt Fight Romeo Take out ye saber, Benvolio. Let’s beat down their cursed sabers before someone gets hurt! Buccaneers, stop 'tis brutle cutlass skirmish. Tybalt, Mercutio, th' Prince has banned skirmishes in th' streets 'o Verona. Heave to, Tybalt! Heave to, jolly Mercutio! Romeo tries to break up the fight. Tybalt reaches under Romeo’s arm and stabs Mercutio. Tybalt flees.…

In the Zeffirelli interpretation of the play Tybalt accidently kills Mercutio. In the Lurhmann interpretation Tybalt purposely tried to kill. You can tell Tybalt accidently killed Mercutio in Zeffirelli’s interpretation because Tybalt showed no malicious intentions. During the sword fight Tybalt had the chance to kill Mercutio, when he had his sword pointing to his neck, Tybalt had a chance to kill but didn’t. In the Lurhmann interpretation of the play Tybalt was clearly the character that was…