Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio

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  • Created by: Ash Thorn
  • Created on: 12-03-16 09:18

Personality

Role

  • Comic
  • Lustful
  • Opposite
  • Hidden seriousness
  • Mercutio plays the part of the comic who provide light relief to the audience.
  • Mercutio is also the character who is the opposite to Romeo
  • Mercutio's role is to provide another look on love
  • Mercutio's death starts the series of tragic events which soon lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • Mercutio's Queen Mab speech - First dreams than nightmares
  • Mercutio talks of lust instead of love and believes one must be 'rough with love '
  • He changes during his death from providing light relief even when fatal wounded he provides jest but soon a couple lines later says 'a plague a'both your houses' thrice.
  • Saying 'a plague a'both your houses' thrice links to context and three was seen as an unlucky number
  • Luck could link to the thee of Fate and the tragic events that follow Mercutio's death in Act 3 Scene 1

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