Mercutio And Romeo’S Differing Views Of Love
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the character Mercutio is prosaic about love and considers it as a chase for something sexual rather than it being affection and devotion like Romeo. Mercutio fights Romeo throughout the play on what this affection truly is and shows us the cynical side of love in Romeo and Juliet. Both of these characters show throughout the play that they have completely different views on love.
Throughout the play Mercutio makes some highly sarcastic remarks about love and most of the time he does it because Romeo is so dramatic about his love for Rosaline and for Juliet. Romeo says:
“and so bound
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe;
Under love's heavy burden do I sink.” (1.4.20-22)
Mercutio responds:
“And to sink in it you should burden love-
Too great oppression for a tender thing.” (1.4.23-24)
In this conversation between Romeo and Mercutio one can tell that Romeo is taking himself way too seriously and Mercutio is......
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