He is now angry with Tybalt and wants revenge. ‘Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.’ Romeos change in mood is significant as it leads to the death of Tybalt and Romeo being banished . Shakespeare also uses dramatic irony to make Act 3 Scene 1 such an intense and significant scene. When Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt all the other characters are confused as to why. ‘Good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own.’ The audience know the reason why Romeo won’t fight Tybalt, which is because Romeo and Juliet are now married.
Romeo doesn’t want any trouble with Tybalt. He tells Mercutio to go, and to stop teasing Tybalt, as he knows that Tybalt, being an expert swordsman, will fight Mercutio to the death, with Tybalt defeating Mercutio: “Draw Benvolio…Hold Tybalt. Good Mercutio.” Sct 3 Scene 1 Line 87-91. This shows Romeo is protective over his friends. With Mercutio now dead, as a result of Tybalt’s thrust under Romeo’s arm, Romeo is very annoyed and wants to take
This, hopefully would have resulted in him not killing Tybalt. People could argue that Romeo only killed Tybalt simply because of his bad temper. A reason to support the view stating Romeo is fortunes fool and this bad act was destined to happen is the fact that Romeo is a Montague and Tybalt is a Capulet. This shows us that Romeo was born into bad luck, as both the families had always been rivals. Romeo and Tybalt are unable to prevent being born into these families, stating Romeo and Tybalt only fought considering that they were both born into families which had forever been enemies making Romeo bound to have killed Tybalt, or death could have easily occurred the other way round.
Romeo's characterization causes him to disregard the possible consequences of the secretive marriage because he lives in the moment and only cares about his love for Juliet. Later on, the consequences come around full circle as Romeo is faced with banishment when he kills a man out of revenge. The man slays Romeo's close friend, Mercutio, causing him to be overcome with emotion and it motivates him to avenge Mercutio's death. Proving to be a crime of passion, Romeo kills Mercutio's murderer in the middle of town during a rash fury when he has no regards for what punishment he may receive. Towards the end of the play, Romeo visits Juliet in her tomb and, believing she is dead, drinks a
Friar Lawrence, in this play, helps Romeo to fulfill his desires of marrying Juliet and always has good intentions for Romeo. In the second act, Romeo was in a hurry to marry Juliet, and he pleads with the Friar to conduct their marriage as Romeo was in "haste". Friar Lawrence agrees to this plea, in the hope that the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues would end and that the marriage will bring the families to make peace with each other. However, his intentions are destroyed when Romeo and Juliet commit suicide for each other and die because of their sworn love for each other. This is because in the play, Juliet refused to marry Paris and so the Friar offers his help again and gives her a special potion that makes her appear dead.
From the scene, it is shown that Benvolio is a caring friend and is considerate of Romeo’s feelings. This is implied when Benvolio breaks up the fight going on between Romeo and Mercutio after Mercutio says: “For this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole”(2.4.93-95). Benvolio stops this argument from continuing due to the likeliness that these words are hurting Romeo. During this scene, it is also implied that Benvolio is a good singer when Mercutio says, “He fights as you sing / prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion” (2.4.21-22).While explaining Tybalt’s fencing skills, he brings up Benvolio’s singing ability as a comparison, implying that Benvolio is a talented vocalist. During Act 2, Scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio and Benvolio are characterized
Romeo and Juliet frequently notice signs, such as when Romeo believes that Juliet is dead, he cried, ‘then I defy you, stars,’ (Act V, Scene I, Line 24) confirming the idea that Romeo and Juliet’s love, was not a part of their fate. The mechanism of destiny is clear in all areas involving the lovers: the feud between their families, the disasters that ruin Friar Lawrence’s plans and the tragic timing of Romeo’s suicide and Juliet’s awakening. These are not simple coincidences, but a manifestation of destiny, which causes the unavoidable deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “If only...” If only the letter was delivered to Romeo, if only Juliet had woken up sooner, if only fate was on their side. Against all odds, Romeo and Juliet did not give up their love for each other, right to the very end.
Throughout the play we follow the lives of Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden love causes the deaths of six different people including themselves. Romeo and Juliet never meant to harm anybody but like in any good tragic love story fate tends to get in the way. When Mercutio lies dying he asks Romeo why he stepped in between whim and Tybalt causing him to be stabbed and all Romeo had to say was “I thought all for the best.” The first to die in “Romeo and Juliet” is Mercutio; he is killed in a sword fight against Tybalt defending Romeos honor because Romeo refused to fight Tybalt who came looking for a duel with Romeo because Romeo did not want to hurt anyone from Juliet’s family. Romeo states to Tybalt before Mercutio takes up his sword to duel Tybalt in Romeos Stead is “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none.
He immediately loses his love for Rosaline. Romeo then starts using opposites (“As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear”) and complements (“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear :”) to describe Juliet and the way he feels about her. To also add more felling and character Shakespeare also has Romeo speak in rhyming couplets. However, to oppose those sweet, loving and tender thoughts. Shakespeare has Tybalt (probably named this as it is so close to ‘tyrant’) saying that he will kill him in honour of his family because he has come to his family’s ceremony.
Romeo refers to his body as a temple and says, “That I may sack / the hateful mansion.” He is referring to how his love is more valuable than a mansions and he is willing to sacrifice it for love. When Romeo is about to drink the poison over Juliet’s unconscious body he makes a long speech, portrayed to the audience as a soliloquy, in comparison to Juliet’s very short and swift speech because the guards were coming. I think Shakespeare did this because throughout the play Romeo hadn’t had a large monologue about his feeling towards Juliet whereas Juliet had spoken a lot about Romeo. This speech….