Mercutio





Created and Edited by:Chad Pyke, Nathan Schultz, Shawn Lobel

 * Mercutio's personality**
 * a reckless person, jokester, a free spirit, and a very passionate person
 * makes long and very dramatic speeches
 * he has a very fickle attitude
 * his name Mercutio comes from the word mercury which means has the charecteristic of changing constantly
 * easily provocked into fighting
 * Mercutio's part in the play**
 * He is a good friend to Romeo and Benvolio
 * He is kinsman to the Prince of Verona and Paris
 * He, Benvolio, and Romeo go to crash the capulet's party and are seen by Tybalt
 * Tybalt challenges Romeo to a fight and at the time Romeo has just married Juliet, refuses to fight him this angers the very fickle Mercutio who takes it upon himself to fight Tybalt. When Romeo see's this he atttempts to stop the fight and gets imbetween the two fighters, then Tybalt see's his opportunity and stabs Mercutio killing him.
 * Famous Quotes By Mercutio**
 * As Mercutio is dying he shouts at the two families "A plague o' both your houses!" (Act III. scene i. 96)
 * While on the way to crash the Capulets party Mercutio delivers his famous Queen Mab speech starting with "O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you."(Act I.scene iv. 54)
 * In the Queen Mab speech Mercutio tells Romeo "true,I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain"(Act I scene iv 97-98)
 * 'Tis no less, I tell ye' for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.(Act II. scene iv. line 101-102)

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