“Tybalt, the reason I have to love thee doth much cause the appertaining rage, to such a greeting… therefore farewell I see though knowest me not …”
Tybalt became ignorant and asks Romeo to dram (his sword).
Romeo replies with Act3 scene1 line 67:
“ I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou canst desire…”
The audience knows that Romeo has just married Juliet. Because Juliet is Tybalt’s cousin, Romeo will not fight someone who is now a member of his own family. Tybalt does not know any of this of course and so he can’t understand why Romeo will not be provoked into a fight. Mercutio is at this point disgusted at Romeo and thinks that he is submitting to Tybalt's insults in a shameful way.
Mercutio fights with tybalt but is fatally wounded as Romeo steps between them trying to stop them. Even as he lies fatally wounded Mercutio’s language is full of humour. He says his wound is neither as ‘deep as a well’ nor as ‘wide as a church door’, but it is enough. Mercutio leaves this scene cursing both houses and wishing a plague on both Capulets and Montagues:
Act3 scene1 lines 105-107 “ a plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me. I have it and soundly too. Your houses!”
This shows how strongly Mercutio feels, he feels that both families are to blame for his death and places a plague upon both households.
This shows that Mercutio might have of shown his love the to the members of his household, but then he places a plague upon his household, and therefore his love turns to hatred. This shows that love is complex to achieve but easy to get rid of.
The next set of love is between Romeo and Rosaline, but this love turns out to be nothing else but infatuation. Romeo is a young man looking for a woman, but Rosaline doesn’t seem to be the right woman. Romeo was only looking at her beauty, which shows Romeo’s lustfulness and sexual desire for Rosaline. This also brings on the mentality of young men at the time, with their crude and sexual humour; these factors bring comedy into the play.
The love between Juliet and her nurse is similar to that between Romeo and friar Lawrence. The main love coming from the nurse and friar Lawrence, they are both more loving towards Romeo and Juliet than their parents. The main reason for this is due to the fact that the parents cannot love while carrying a lot of hatred towards the other household. Friar Lawrence and the nurse help Romeo and Juliet get married and this slow things down, after their marriage Romeo and Juliet they feel the other partner is honest and sincere.
Without the help and assistance of friar Lawrence, Romeo and juliet wouldn’t be together, and although it might not have of been a good Idea for them to get married, friar Lawrence and the nurse act deeply from their hearts, showing that their love towards Romeo and juliet is the same as the love between Romeo and juliet- sincere.
This brings us to the most popular love in the play, between Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet act and speak to each other with a lot of passion and true feelings. They also become lustful towards each other, based on the fact that they love each other. Juliet's proposal comes very fast, and pushed quickly by her, while using her tactic of answering her own questions, which are supposed to be set for Romeo.
In act2 scene2 line 90:
“ Dost thou love me, I know thou wilt say ‘Ay’, and will take thou word.
This shows that Juliet wants to be the dominant partner.
Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it act3 scene1 lines 33-34: "But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth"
The love between Romeo and Juliet is deep and passionate and is more powerful than hatred and even death.
In this play there are many choices that are taken and affect the rest of the play. The most effective is that of the marriage between Romeo and juliet, had their marriage not gone through, Romeo and Juliet’s families will still be at war with each other and both will still be alive alongside, many other characters. But their marriage brought upon their death.
The next most effective choice to be taken and causing a disaster is in act3 scences1+2, if everybody walked away, tybalt would not have of been dead, nor Mercutio and Romeo would not have of been sent to exile, meaning he and juliet wouldn’t have to leave, and it would not have brought the deaths of Romeo and juliet.
