The scene begins in a public place. Benvolio and Mercutio are waiting around for the Capulets, Mercutio has plans to trade insults with Tybalt a Capulet. Benvolio is nervy and tense; he doesn’t wish to get his master into bother as he knows of what the Prince said in earlier dates…
“…If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
…Mercutio the man that he is (arrogant and determined) refuses to listen to Benvolio’s warnings and processed with his plans to wait for the Capulets. When the Capulets confront the Montague boys about Romeo’s whereabouts, Mercutio takes the way in which Tybalt talks to him offensive, and throws it back in his face. Benvolio still uptight about the two men engaging in conflict in the streets of Verona ask both men to take it to another place…
“We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Either withdraw unto some private place,
And reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.”
… Benvolio is expressing the need to move by thinking of the peoples thoughts around them. He is also trying to say if this row is took else where it
is less likely the Prince shall find out, therefore no-one family will have to pay the price of disturbing the peace on the streets.
In this story there are two passages including fighting. In both including this act, Shakespeare simply tells who are fighting and who dies. He leaves the rest up to the imagination of the produces and actors. The stage directions in the play are little but the lines said by the co-actors tell the other character what will happen in advance. When this fight is staged it is up to directors and producers to tamper with the script as it is left open to opinion.
In this section the language used is spectacular in the way of so many different techniques are used. Mercutio thought out the play speaks in prose, other families of higher class speak in prose, Shakespeare uses this method throughout and also in other plays such as Hamlet. Though this scene many of the characters speak in prose. But after Mercutio's death the more serious mood is shown as characters all speak in blank (unrhymed) verse. This is kept up until the end of the scene, where Benvolio, Lady Capulet, Montague and the Prince all speak in rhyming verse.
As the argument between Tybalt and Mercutio begins, Mercutio uses his language to fight Tybalt he insults him by saying such things as “ratcatcher…King of cats...nine lives” Tybalt also uses this method of fighting to insult Romeo.
When Romeo enters the audience is aware of his marriage to Juliet, this explains his happiness and his reaction to Tybalt’s fight offer. Romeo is prepared to put the past behind him and learn to love his new family. The audience I think would be rather confused by Romeos actions as his name is in blood and the Capulets in marriage.
After Romeo refuse a fight with Tybalt Mercutio’s anger and hatred of Romeo and The Capulets builds up on even terms.
Puns presented a very much-anticipated suspense, and were extremely popular with the Elizabethan era of individuals.
“…Ask for me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave man.’’
This is a brief illustration of puns
“No,'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough, ‘twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Mercutio has just been stabbed but still he insists that he is well.
In my judgment this plays’ most important characteristics are the themes, the three used in the stage production are based highly Act III Scene I. In this scene the audience can discover the types of love which Shakespeare wants his characters to experience. The two main characters already are experiencing true love by this point in time in the play, they encountered this from late in Scene I.
In Act III Scene I every man is trying to fend for themselves and their others, this is where ‘revenge’ kicks in tough; Tybalt was looking for Romeo for the episode in the Capulet Manor. But Mercutio is slain by Tybalt, which makes Romeos love for his family modify to disgust and he turns and kills his fresh wife’s cousin. The hatred between the two families later kills their adored children. The lives of both Romeo and Juliet could have been saved, if only the ancient feud was settled earlier.
“O, I am fortune’s fool”
Throughout the whole play the role of ‘fate’ would have to rule over all the themes, Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers as the prologue. People in the Elizabethan era were very aware of what the stars told them
The characters in this performance mainly show their actions in speech, basically this is when the performer explains their following behaviour in the lines before it happens.
“This shall determine that.”
This line gives you an insight into Romeo’s feelings and his actions, which follow he is prepared to kill the one who had murdered a dear companion that he loved and treasured.
This scene is the most dramatic out of all of the others because it includes all the dramatic elements I have mentioned and the fighting obviously affects the rest of the story with Romeo getting banished. No other scene include as many dilemmas or dramatic elements.