Mercutio
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- Created on: 19-05-17 19:58
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- Mercutio
- 'If love be rough with you, be rough with love'
- Mercutio is telling Romeo to get over his love for Rosaline
- Mercutio comes across as opposed to the whole idea of love
- Mercutio is an anti Romantic character who regards love as an exclusively physical pursuit
- 'I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh'
- Mercutio is hostile towards women.
- He compares Rosaline's body parts to things in nature in a crude monologue
- 'I see Queen Mab hath been with you'
- Mercutio has a very strange rant about the mythological fairy Queen Mab and ends up talking about sexual love
- Fairies predominate in the dream world Mercutio presents, and dreams are merely the result of the anxieties and desires of those who sleep
- This displays Mercutio's eloquence and vivid imagination, while illustrating his cynical side
- 'Romeo, Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh,Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied.'
- Mercutio mocks Romeo's vision of love and the poetic devices he uses to express his emotions
- 'If love be rough with you, be rough with love'
- Mercutio is optimistic, loyal and a good friend
- Mercutio is Romeo's best friend
- 'That dreamers often lie'
- Mercutio makes fun of Romeo after he says he loves Rosaline
- Mercutio ridicules Romeo's 'love' for Rosaline and claims it as false
- This is Mercutio's response after Romeo tells Mercutio he dreamt of Rosaline
- He says openly that dreamers lie because he understands Romeo's love for Rosaline isn't true
- Mercutio makes fun of Romeo after he says he loves Rosaline
- "Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste."
- Mercutio is loyal when Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt
- Mercutio then decides to fight Tybalt himself instead
- Mercutio cannot stand to see Romeo's honour jeopardised in the face of his enemy
- This shows Mercutio taking Romeo's place to fight Tybalt
- He is taunting Tybalt suggesting he is slow to get his sword ready to fight
- The fact that Mercutio is telling Tybalt to 'make haste' will only taunt Tybalt further, as he is suggesting Tybalt is a coward
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- 'A plague o both your houses!
- 'By my heel, I care not.'
- 'Signior Romeo, bonjour!'
- 'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man'
- Mercutio is one of the kinsmen of Prince Escallus
- Mercutio is known for his jokes and making audiences laugh, but he is in fact very profound. Mercutio is a deep thinking and avid dreamer
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