The character Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a round and static. Mercutio was the humorous character in the play Romeo and Juliet. He was killed off by Tybalt in a street brawl. He was a part of the Montague family. Mercutio is a very loyal and humorous character in Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio sticks up for his friends and loses his life doing it.
Mercutio is a very loyal for the people he cares about. “O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away. Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?” (III/I/70-73) Tybalt is there to fight Romeo, but Mercutio gets in between in order to protect Romeo. “Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ‘tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.”(III/I/90-91) Mercutio lost his life protecting Romeo. When Mercutio was fighting Tybalt Romeo got in between the two and Tybalt stabbed Mercutio under Romeo’s arm.
Mercutio is the comic relief of the play. “Nay, I'll conjure too. Romeo! humors! madman! passion! lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove.” (II/I/7-11) Mercutio is making a joke about Romeo and telling him …show more content…
“You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, And soar with them above a common bound.” (I/IV/509) Romeo made up an excuse of why he shouldn’t go to the party by saying that he has lead soles on his shoes and Mercutio has light weight dancing shoes. So Mercutio said that since Romeo is a lover he can dance and do whatever he wants no matter what excuse. “Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?” (II/IV/1171) Mercutio thinks that he cannot beat Tybalt because he does not think that Romeo is skilled enough to take on