When Benvolio and Mercutio see Tybalt Mercutio says, because Mercutio doesn’t care because he is tough and strong and he says that if it comes to a fight he's the one who's going to put his opponent under his heel. When Tybalt arrives he starts to Arguing with Tybalt “And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow”. Mercutio tries to pick a fight with Tybalt and Mercutio draws his sword and says it's the fiddlestick to whose music Tybalt will dance and then Mercutio says “But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery: Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower; your worship in that sense may call him 'man.” He is insulting Tybalt by behalf of Romeo. Mercutio defends Romeo and threatens Tybalt and says “O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away”. Mercutio gets angry because Tybalt insulted Romeo. Mercutio wants to fight with Tybalt even more. Mercutio says, “Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?”. He says that Tybalt is kings of cat and he wants to settle this and then he says “Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out”. Mercutio is trying to say that he will take one of Tybalt nine lives, and then he'll take the other eight lives. They begin to fight Romeo tries to stop the fight and holds Mercutio and Tybalt kills Mercutio and he says loudly “I am hurt. A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone, and hath nothing”. Mercutio is still making jokes even though he is dying, for example When everyone asks him if he is hurt and he says “Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch ; marry, 'tis enough.” He is saying that its not that bad the scratch is enough to kill him. Mercutio continue to curse on both of their houses.
In Zefferelli’s film version Mercutio Gets angry so quickly. Mercutio calls Romeo a coward “O calm, dishonorable vile submission:” he fight’s with Tybalt for Romeo instead,
Tybalt
Tybalt is intent on finding Romeo. He has come to find Romeo because he came to Capulet’s party with out any permission and because of him Tybalt got slapped from his own Uncle. He doesn’t see Romeo so he comes nicely and talks with Mercutio. “Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.” Him and Mercutio talk with each other but Tybalt wants to get -Romeo. When Romeo come he insults him straightway by saying “Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this, thou art a villain”.Tybalt disrespects him by calling him a villain. That means that nobody like him and he is not a very important person in fair Verona. He cannot understand why Romeo won’t fight and tells him to “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw”. He tries again to fight with Romeo and says that Romeo can’t excuse the injuries that he did it to me. He has Sword Fight with Mercutio and kills Mercutio, Tybalt panics and runs away. Tybalt didn’t wanted to fight with Mercutio or kill him but when he start disrespecting Romeo than Mercutio challenges him to fight and he accidentally kills him. Tybalt is then challenged by Romeo and Tybalt gets killed by Romeo. When he dies he says, "Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him"
In Zeffereli’s version Tybalt hates the Montague’s and always starts the fight. He kills Mercutio and he gets kills by Romeo.
Romeo
Romeo is happy at the begging of the scene. He is happy because he secretly got married with Juliet and he does not want to fight Tybalt because they are cousin through the marriage and when Tybalt calls him a villain Romeo replies softly by saying “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting: villain am I none; Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not”. Romeo speaks nicely and says that he likes Tybalt and then he says that he is not a villain and starts to leave and then Romeo says “ I do protest, I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise, Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender As dearly as my own,-be satisfied”. He says that he loves the name of Capulet and asks Tybalt to be satisfied with that. At first he tries hard to stop the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt by saying “Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath forbidden bandying in Verona streets: Hold, Tybalt good Mercutio” He is trying to calm them down and both of them to put the swords down and reminds them that the Prince has forbidden these fights on the streets. However, after Mercutio is killed he gets angry and says “This day's black fate on more days doth depend this but begins the woe, others must end”. He is trying to say that somebody else started it and he will finish it. He challenges Tybalt to a fight and then he kills him. In the film version he is very handsome person. He tries to keep the peace between the families. He gets angry when he finds out that Mercutio is dead. He kills Tybalt as a revenge for Mercutio.
Benvolio
Benvolio is also very important person in this scene. At the start he says to Mercutio “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire: The day is hot, the Capulet’s abroad, and, if we meet, we shall not escape a brawl for now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring”. He tries to convince Mercutio to get out of the heat and go somewhere else because if Capulet’s arrive then there would be a big trouble. He wants Mercutio to stop arguing and he tries to get him out of there. Because Tybalt is there is well and there could be a fight. Zafferelli also shows Benvolio as a peace maker because he says “We talk here in the public haunt of men either withdraw unto some private place” Benvolio tries to calm out to some private place and when both Mercutio are dead and the prince is things down he tells both Mercutio and Tybalt that they shouldn't fight in public places. He tells them to sort this here he says “O noble prince, I can discover all the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio”. Benvolio says that he can explain what just happen he points to dead Tybalt and says that he killed Mercutio and then Tybalt was killed by Romeo.
It is clear from Shakespeare text how we should that about the characters. Zeferelli shows that this is the main turning point of the where Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because he is married to Juliet, Tybalt teases Romeo and Mercutio decides to fight for Romeo because he has dishonored himself, Romeo tries to stop the fight but Mercutio gets killed, and he kills Tybalt, and the Prince give the banishment to Romeo. Tybalt character doesn’t change at in any part of the scene, because he is a very angry person and always look for a fight with Montague’s. Benvolio’s character is a good and loyal to Montague’s and to his friends and he is peacemaker. He does not change before or during Act 3 Scene 1. Mercutio character is angry and bad tempered. He gets angry so quickly and he is loyal to Romeo. He does not change before or during Act 3 Scene 1. Romeo’s character is kind, gentle and loving person in beginning of Act 3 Scene 1 he is gentle and loving only for half of the scene but when his best friend dies. He kills the person who kills his friend.
Shakespeare builds the tension in this scene by showing anger from both sides. I think Act 3 scene 1 is the best scene in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo becomes nicer towards Tybalt because he has just married Juliet. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt and plays with Romeo get banished from fair Verona and the play ends in tears for both of the families.
