When Romeo is seen at the Capulet’s party Tybalt is furious with Romeo. Tybalt goes and tells Lord Capulate.
“Tis he, that villain Romeo.”
Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that Romeo was there but Lord Capulet says it is all right.
“Verona brags of him to be a virtous and well governed youth.”
Lord Capulet is saying that Romeo is not the kind of guy that is going to start a fight. When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time he forgets about Rosaline completely. This shows he is really fickle.
When the nurse comes to see Romeo about the arrangements. Romeo doesn’t join in at making fun of her. Instead he protects her and tells his friends not to be silly.
“One, gentlewoman, that god hath made, himself to mar.”
Here Romeo is saying that she is a gentlewoman and don’t make fun of her.
In his romance he is impulsive because one minute he is in love with Rosaline and in the next minute he is in love with Juliet.
“Thou childst me oft for loving Rosaline.”
He is saying here that he doesn’t love Rosaline any more. He becomes more serious with Juliet. To show this he gets married with Juliet.
“That last is true, the sweeter rest was mine.”
He is saying he wants to get married to Juliet and wants to forget about Rosaline.
“I have forgot that name, and that name‘s woe.”
In this scene the priest is exceedingly confused because Romeo has fallen in love with another girl so quickly. This again shows that Romeo is indecisive.
When Benvolio says to Mercutio that it is a hot day and there is going to be a fight.
“We shall not scape a brawl.”
You know here that there is going to be a fight with someone.
When Tybalt walks into the scene he is looking for Romeo, to have a fight with him. For his luck Romeo didn’t want him a fight.
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee.”
Romeo is saying he loves Tybalt and he doesn’t want to fight because he has just married Tybalt’s cousin Juliet. His mood just has been the same since the start of the play, peaceful and calm.
When Romeo enters the scene, Tybalt who is angry at Romeo gate crashing the Capulet’s party challenge’s him for a fight.
“Thou art a villain.”
Here Tybalt is winding Romeo up so he will fight with him. When Romeo tells Tybalt he doesn’t want to fight with Tybalt, and when he says all these good things to Tybalt. Mercutio gets angry with Romeo and starts a fight with Tybalt.
“Alla stoccata carries it away.”
Here Mercutio draws his sword and challenges Tybalt to a fight. When Mercutio is about to kill Tybalt, Romeo comes in the way and Mercutio is stabbed under Romeo arm.
“Hold Tybalt! Hold Mercutio!”
Here Romeo tells them to stop.
After Mercutio was stabbed in a blink of a second Romeo gets angry. He straight away goes and finds Tybalt. Here his language changes completely.
“Fire-eye’d fury be my conduct now.”
He is really angry now. Just in a split second he changes from peaceful and calm to angry and furious. This shows that he is fickle. After he has won the fight, he also changes his mood quickly. Instead of celebrating his win for Mercutio he is devastated because he has just killed his cousin.
“O, I am fortune’s fool.”
He finds out what he has just done. In this scene it is clearly shows that Romeo’s mood can change quickly.
His language can differ as well. If we look at the first two speeches in this scene we can see a lot of words associated with peace and caring.
“Love thee.”, “I never injured thee.”, “Good Capulet, which name I tender.”
All these words are sympathetic and thoughtful words. But straight after Mercutio dies his words all change into anger.
“My reputation stain’d”
He doesn’t like Tybalt now and wants to kill him.
“Take the “villan” back.”
Romeo is telling Tybalt to take his insults back; early in the scene he didn’t care about it. Here again shows he can change his mind quickly.
At the end of the scene Romeo knows that when he killed Tybalt it was going to ruin the rest of his life and he is going to regret it through out the rest of the play.