Mercutio

Question 1

“ If love be rough with you ,be rough with love.Prick love for pricking,and you beat love down”
Mercutio

Answer 1

-highlights the difference in personalities between Romeo and mercutio
-Romeo is romantic and is in love with the idea of love rather than being in love it self
- mercutio feels that love is momentary and purely sexual

Question 2

“I conjure thee by Rosalines bright eyes,hee fine foot ,straight leg and quivering thigh “
Mercutio

Answer 2

-does not take Romeo’s romantic feelings seriously at all
-crude and twisted when talking about Rosalines body
-strengthens the idea that he thinks of women as sexual objects and does not reallt think about love

Question 3

“Dishonourable,vile submission”
Mercutio

Answer 3

-tybalt insults Romeo by calling him a villain
-during the Elizabethan era,this word was very insulting to someone’s honour
-mercutio steps in and fights tybalt because Romeo does not defend his honour

Question 4

“A plague O’ both your houses”
Mercutio

Answer 4

-noun plague has very negative connotations
-England had experienced several waves of bubonic plague
-mercutio wishing horrible fate on these two families adds to the tragedy