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3. Is Mercutio an important figure in “Romeo and Juliet”?Why?
Mercutio is absolutely an important character in Romeo and Juliet’s story. First of all he is kind of guilty for the death of the two lovers, in fact he started a sort of what I would call “chain reaction” . Mercutio is killed by Tybalt, Tybalt is killed by Romeo, Romeo is killed by the false death of Juliet and the girl too kills herself for the pain of losing her lover and husband. So if Mercutio hadn’t started the fight with his enemy, may be the tragedy would have been avoided. Anyway, apart from this, the man is important because he has his own qualities and features that makes him a particular and original character. He is a little bit fool , his speeches are full of emptiness and he talks in a strange way. It’s his prerogative, like when he makes his speech about Queen Mab, describing a world with so many details that the reader finds easy to create an imaginary castle that in reality doesn’t exist and that Romeo will later destroy saying to his friend that he talks about nothing. In fact Mercutio’s speech seems senseless and made by a person who has drunk or smoke something strange. Actually in a film, “Romeo+Juliet”, he assumes drugs before saying those weird things about the queen of dreams and so on. Mercutio can also be considered a victim of the conflict between the two families: we usually think immediately to the couple when we mention the consequences of their hate, but the first person who lost his life for those fights is actually Mercutio. So he is part of the “civil blood” caused by the mutiny. He is also a symbol of friendship, the one that there was between the protagonist , Romeo, and him, friendship that brought the first to have revenge of the offense and the pain Tybalt caused to him. When he is dying, he curses the two families, because they were clearly guilty for his death, and so Romeo: he refused to fight against his cousin (he had just married Juliet so her family was at that moment his family too) and so Mercutio decided to fight at the place of his friend that showed an unbelievable behavior of submission to the enemy. Mercutio has two sides: the one of a fool and carefree guy, who acts in a lazy way, who doesn’t care about anything, living in his own world , while from the other side he can be seen has a good and true friend, who protect Romeo and who wants to change his mood in a good one when he is in the blues. Mercutio is a free soul, who lives his life in his own way, he is difficult to understand just because of his controversial personality. In my opinion he gives to the story an important contribution not only for the development and the plot for which his part is crucial but also for the moments in which he interviews, because they are cheerful, light-hearted and they give a touch of lightness that the reader needs, in fact after his death it starts the real tragedy and so before spending so many tears it’s good to laugh a little with his funny character!
Linda Montin IV D

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