In Romeo&Juliet Mercutio and Romeo are very different from one another. What is the source of their friendship
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In the play it refers to Mercutio as a kinsmen to Romeo.  I think they were supposed to be cousins.
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Juliet ~ "Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I :  It is some meteor that the sun exhales, To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, and light thee on thy way to Mantua:  Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone."  Act 3, Scene 5\nMercutio ~ Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough. / Where is my page?  Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.”\nTybalt ~ “Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford / No better term than this: thou art a villain.”\nBenvolio ~ "Tell me in sadness, who is it that you love?" Act 1, Scene 1\nFriar Laurence ~ "So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after hours with sorrow chide us not!" Act 3, Scene 6\nBalthasar ~ "I do beseech you sir, have patience:   your looks are pale and wild, and do import some misadventure."\nNurse ~ "Merry, farewell!  I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?"\nServant ~ "God gi' god-den  I pray, sir, can you read?"\n\nThe quotes should be self-explanatory~if not, re-read the acts to gain the descriptive portion of your question.
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lord capulet, ok. well i just finished reading this and i myself am writing an essay, not of the same topic.  so, anyways, lord capulet played a major role in the play. like all the secondary characters in the story he had good intentions that went bad. the father of the main character wanted what was best for his daughter and that was to marry paris but that was not what juliet wanted. \ni dont know if you can write about another character but if you could the friar would be a good one. it would be easy to elaborate on his good intentions. his whole plan was for the marriage of romeo and juliet to stop the feud between the familys, but in order for that to happen the lovers had to die, this is the good intention gone bad.
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>Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare at a relatively early juncture in his literary career, most probably in 1594 or 1595.\nhttp://www.enotes.com/romeo/\n\n>Shakespeare wrote his works between 1588 and 1616, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.\n\n>The story originates from a 1476 story of Mariotto and Gianozza by Masuccio Salernitano, in Il Novelino. Luigi da Porto's Istoria novellamente ritrovata di due Nobili Amanti gave the story much of its modern form, renaming the lovers to Romeus and Giulietta and shifting the action from Siena to Verona. Da Porto's story was taken up and included by Matteo Bandello in his Novelle of 1554, and versified by Arthur Brooke, whose narrative poem "Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet", written in 1562, was the source for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare enriched its texture through his vivid characterizations of both major and minor characters, in particular the Nurse and Mercutio.
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"The attraction of Juliet  for Romeo and vice versa is nothing but and in fact is the same  as that between  a magnet and a piece of iron." So theorised old materialists. Even if this simple explanation of love was not approved by the votaries of love who felt it was of divine origin, it represents the most abiding truth.Otherwise why do somethimes the most incompatible of people feel irresistably pulled towards each other and sometimes ruin their otherwise promising careers. It is--love is--essentially a physical attraction. As iron also  gets magnitised with long association with a magnet, love also keeps the partners fixed together like the opposite poles(which they actually are).The association which is initially physical may develop into a social one with the caring that they bestow on each other. But mark my word, this is nothing but an attempt to recharge the waning attraction over time and nothing more even if  we may give all goody-goody names to it. In a luck few this pull remains strong even if the physique become weak over age.But the holding hands, the consideration for each other are all the expression of this physically weaked and yet st rong magnetic pull.And there is nothing to feel ashamed about it.This abiding attraction which many a time transcands the social and other compatibility is an inherent strength which promises the continuation of the society.
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Because she is teasing Juliet and does not directly tell her what Romeo said, this is why Juliet calls her cruel.\n\nShe is not actually cruel.
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I'm not sure if you mean scene four, but when the the Nurse is going to tell Romeo to meet Juliet later, the three characters are in a rowdy and "manly" mood, which they express by joking about women and sex.  This becomes embarrassing for the Nurse, who becomes part of their jokes.
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Try this: http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/randj.htm \nhttp://www.enotes.com/romeo/830 \nYour question was not articulate (clear) enough ...
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Tybalt comes looking for Romeo, as he was still angry for Romeo coming to the ball. He wants to fight Romeo, but Romeo, considering he is now part of Tybalt's family, doesn't want to, and offers to be friends. Mercutio gets annoyed at Romeo's "cowardness" and insults Tybalt, causing them to fight. When Romeo tries to break the pair up, Tybalt stabs Mercutio, and runs off. Apparently, it's just a scratch, but Mercutio knows his times up, and curses both houses (Capulet and Montague).
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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Juliet's attitude toward Paris is not a friendly one. The quote you've mentioned shows that she does not approve of him thinking of her as his lady or his wife because she is not (yet) married to him despite her father's promises and arrangements made. Probably she does not outright hate him but feels a resentment that he would simply assume her to be overjoyed at the arrangement of marriage she had no part in making.
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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Capulets.  Romeo was a Montague.
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Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are found dead shortly thereafter by a squire, who runs off to alert others. As word spreads throughout Verona about the deaths, the two feuding families (except Lady Montague, who had died of grief for her son) and the Prince converge upon the tomb. They are horrified to find Romeo, Juliet, and Paris all lying dead, and Friar Lawrence (who has hurried to the crypt but is too late to prevent the tragedy) reveals to them the love and secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet. The feuding families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud, as explained by the prologue. The play ends with the Prince saying, "A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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The Metaphysics of the story are the theory of life and death and the contrast of the two, it also deals with the concept and contrast of love vs Hait. \nRomeo and Juliet love each other where in contrast their family's hait each other so much that it causes a war between the two,it is only after their deaths that their family's learn to accept one another thus learning to LIVE with them self's and each other
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet\n\nhttp://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/