Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In act 3 scene 1 there are two major fights which both result in

deaths, the first fight is between Tybalt and Mercutio, Romeo tries

helping Mercutio by standing in-between Tybalt and Mercutio but

Mercutio gets hurt under Romeos arm, this fight results in the death

of Mercutio.

Romeo then is very angry and upset with Tybalt for killing his family

friend, Mercutio so the second fight comes into action. This fight

shows a side to Romeo we haven’t really seen a side that is violent

and upset the fight results in the death of Tybalt, (Romeos new wives

cousin…)

They depicted fate as a woman with a wheel to which people were

attached, Fate would spin the wheel and depending where you lane

determine your luck, i.e. if you landed at the bottom of the wheel you

would suffer bad luck and if you landed on the top you would have good

luck.

This was a popular belief because it helped explain how at one point

someone could experience good luck and at another could experience bad

luck.

“Romeo and Juliet” are set with bad luck from the very start, when

they first meet they fall in love almost immediately but Juliet is

pulled away by her mother and nurse who absolutely prohibit Juliet

from seeing Romeo. ‘My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early

seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to

me, that I must love a loathed enemy’ this show that Juliet has fallen

in love immediately with Romeo, and she knows it is wrong to be in

love with him as he is a sworn family enemy. We can also see that

Romeo is very distraught about ...

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Mercutio doesn’t help himself either by being provoked by Tybalt and

not walking away; ‘Tybalt you rat-catcher will you walk?’ this shows

the Mercutio will not walk away and is ready for a fight.

Tybalt is forever provoking people into fights and is very much like

Mercutio will not walk away and in denial that he may get beaten; ’I

am for you!’ this shows he feels he cannot get beaten but wants to

make Mercutio think he can beat him and Mercutio and him being so

alike Mercutio does not back down either.

I feel the two death and Romeos banishment were caused by bad luck due

to people being to competitive and not backing down.

Romeos banishment was completely bad luck due to Mercutio not backing

down and being killed which made Romeo upset and angry which resulted

to Tybalts death all of this is bad luck.