Romeo enters. Tybalt turns his attention from Mercutio to Romeo, and calls Romeo a villain. Tybalt commands Romeo to draw his sword. Romeo protests that he has good reason to love Tybalt, and does not wish to fight him. He asks that until Tybalt knows the reason for this love, he put aside his sword. Mercutio angrily draws his sword and declares with biting wit that if Romeo will not fight Tybalt, he will. Mercutio and Tybalt begin to fight. Romeo, attempting to restore peace, throws himself between the combatants.
When Tybalt, still angry, storms back onto the scene, Romeo draws his sword. They fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt. Benvolio urges Romeo to run; a group of citizens outraged at the recurring street fights is approaching. The Prince enters, accompanied by many citizens, and the Montagues and Capulets. Prince Escalus chooses instead to exile Romeo from Verona.
He declares that if Romeo is found within the city, he will be killed. The sudden, fatal violence in the first scene of Act 3, as well as the buildup to the fighting, serves as a reminder that, for all its emphasis on love, beauty, and romance, Romeo and Juliet still takes place in a masculine world in which notions of honor, pride, and status are prone to erupt in a fury of conflict. Passion outweighs reason at every turn. It also recalls the sense of fate that hangs over the play.
Lady Capulet demands blood for the killing of Tybalt , but, luckily for Romeo, the Prince does not enforce the death penalty. Instead, he tells Romeo that he is banished from Verona.
Though Tybalt's quarrel is with Romeo, he begins the momentous duel in Act 3 by fighting with and killing Mercutio instead. Tybalt ultimately attacks Mercutio because the garrulous and hot-headed character insults Tybalt and goads him into a duel to protect Romeo's honor.
Romeo's motivation in killing Tybalt is to defend the honor of Mercutio. Ironically, it was Romeo's jumping in between the swordplay of Tybalt and Mercutio that indirectly led to Mercutio's death. Had Romeo not been in the way, Mercutio would have likely been able to see and avoid Tybalt's blade. Whether or not he meant to deal a killing blow, there can be no doubt that he wanted to win the duel, and has every desire to at least wound Mercutio.
So I would say it's an accident of circumstance that the duel happened between Mercutio and Tybalt, but the death itself is more than an accident. Tybalt and Mercutio draw their swords and fight.
To stop the battle, Romeo steps between them and Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm. Mercutio's wound is fatal and he dies crying "A plague o' both your houses! Mercutio has just been fatally wounded in a street brawl when he cries a "A plague o' both your houses. He believes it is the feud between the two families that has caused his fatal wound.
What is the Prince's decree, and what are the reasons he gives for making it? Hes decree is to banish romeo because he killed Tybalt, but doesn't kill romeo because Tybalt killed Mercutio. Why did Mercutio die in Romeo and Juliet? Category: family and relationships bereavement.
Why is Mercutio's death ironic? What does Mercutio say before death? Why does Mercutio die first? What causes Mercutio death? Why is Mercutio's death important? Why does Shakespeare kill Mercutio? Mercutio's death is the catalyst for the tragic turn the play takes from this point onward. True to character, the hot-headed Mercutio starts a quarrel the instant Tybalt requests a word with him, by responding, "make it a word and a blow.
Romeo, by contrast, is as passionate about love as Tybalt and Mercutio are about hostility. Romeo appears, cheerful and contented with having wed Juliet only hours before, and unaware that he's even been challenged to a duel.
Until Mercutio dies, Romeo remains emotionally distinct from the other characters in the scene. Romeo walks atop his euphoric cloud buoyed by blissful thoughts of marriage to Juliet, peace, unity, and harmony. In response to Tybalt's attempts to initiate a fight, Romeo tells Tybalt that he loves "thee better than thou canst devise.
In Romeo's mind, he has shed his identity as a Montague and has become one with Juliet, his wife. Romeo's separation echoes the balcony scene where he said "Call me but love…Henceforth I never will be Romeo. While Romeo no longer labels himself Montague, Tybalt still sees Romeo as standing on the wrong side of a clear line that divides the families.
Mercutio is disgusted by Romeo's abandonment of traditionally masculine aggression.
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