A Charater Representation in the Novel to Kill a Mockingbord

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Character Representation Dog, dove with an olive branch and blue are the things that represent Benvolio, one of the characters in the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. To begin with, I choose dog to represents Benvolio’s personality. Humans had a tendency to criticize others, be prejudice, racist and many other things. Dogs are very loyal and will protect their owner with everything they had whether they are little to large dogs. They accept their owner without question and it does not matter if you are crippled, blind, homeless, old, young and etc. All dogs see their owner as their world. In other words, dog symbolize friendship and loyalty. We all meet Benvolio as Romeo’s best friend but when Romeo wants to be alone, Benvolio leaves him alone; when he wants to talk Benvolio is there with sympathetic ear. Especially in Act 3 Scene 1, Benvolio’s friendship and loyalty to Romeo had been tested. When Romeo kills Tybalt for killing Mercutio he immediately says: Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed. The Prince will doom thee death If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! (3.1.94-97) Knowing that Romeo’s punishment will be death, Benvolio gets him off the street and into hiding. Even though Romeo committed a crime, Benvolio still stays at Romeo’s side. Benvolio tells the truth to the Prince that it is just because of a friend’s death that Romeo kills Tybalt. Benvolio tries to lower Romeo’s punishment. Secondly, I represent Benvolio as a dove with an olive branch. It says that it symbolize peace, which we all know that Benvolio is the peace-keeper in the play. In the beginning of Act 1 Scene 1, Sampson and Gregory, servant of the Capulets, are talking in the streets of Verona when Gregory sees two Montague servants’ approaches. Gregory discusses with Sampson the best way to provoke them into a fight without

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