Monday, April 21, 2008
Mercuito"s Proclamation?
In Act III.i.113-115, Mercutio proclaims that, "... A plague o' both your houses!/ They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,/ And soundly too. Your houses!" What is he suggesting? Is it more than a dying observation? What is your understanding of the lines and its recitation in Act III?
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He is suggesting that he is going to put a curse on the two families; he has the right to because they have killed him. It’s not more than a dying observation because Mercutio wouldn’t curse them for any reason. I cursed both your houses because you have killed me and I will rot I can do this because you have killed me.
Mercutio is cursing Tybalt for stabbing him and is infuriated at the Capulet and Montague families for having so many squabble moments that would kill him. He was finally enraged at the families because he finally realized that he fought to the death for the Montagues. He realizes that he was slain by the other side and is now very infuriated that he had been stabbed. He says that he is done for and is going to die. But he does not leave with that, he curses the families one more time.
Mercutio is implying that his death is caused by the never-ending feud of the Capulet and Montague family. He has sacrificed his life fighting for the power of the Montague’s, but lost to the Capulet’s. Now that he realizes that he has done this he puts a curse on both families for the troubles they have caused within the city and to individuals. He proclaims his disgust for the rivalry and tries to include in his last words how much he would like the ways of the two families to change.
Mercutio, in a rather unsubtle manner, is cursing the feud and all who are involved in it. He feels that his life meant nothing to the Capulet family ("They have made worms' meat of me") and that he died only because Tybalt got a lucky stab at him. He both wants to express his deep anger and resentment towards the feud as well as be a warning for the rest of the Montague family. He knows it was a foolish thing to fight Tybalt, but he knows that sooner or later, someone was going to die, so he wants to end the fight by saying how silly and ridiculous the feud is. This exclamation also reveals that Mercutio is not light at heart when it comes to getting his point across and getting in the last word. He may be arrogant and head-fast, but he knows how to die with confidence, realization, and style.
Mercutio is suggesting that both families will are to blame for his death becuase due to thier rivalery he is dead. I think that it is more than a dying observation. I think that it has a little bit of foreshadowing because a "plague" is put on both families when, due to thier rivalery Romeo and juliet die.
When Mercutio says "A plague o' both your houses!," he is basically saying curse both the Montagues and the Capulets for what has happened to him; both families should be ashamed of themselves for feuding. And when he says, "They have made worms' meat out of me.", he means that they have made him useless like "worms' meat". So both of the families have made him as worthless as death, so to speak. He is suggesting that the fued between the two families is ridiculous, and that it should end. I think it is more than a dying observation, because he is trying to get a point across, that the family feud should end.
I think he is just trying to get his last few words out of revenge by cursing the families. I think at this point Mercutio believed he was going to die, and maybe he was also trying to edge on Romeo to finish the deed with Tybalt.
In this act, Tybalt insults Mercutio and they fight. Then Tybalt stabs Mercutio just after Romeo tries to stop the fighting. Before these lines, Mercutio asks to be taken into a house, before he faints. Then in lines 113-115, he is cursing Tybalt and Romeo for being the reason why he is going to die. Romeo interfeered when Mercutio didnt want him to and Tybalt was the one who stabbed him. He is saying that they treated him badly. I think he is mostly saying this out of anger because he is dying and doesnt think about what he is saying, to Romeo.
I think Mercutio is saying that he wants a so called, "plague" or sickness to be put on both familes. He is explaining that he wants this plague to make them very weak. Mercutio says he is done with all of it. He finishes off this cursing by basically saying condemn your familes. All of this is said right after he had been stabed. After saying this Mercutio dies.
I think Mercutio is saying that he feels the need to curse the family and the fued. He believes he can do so because he is done with all the fighting and has had enough. He realizes the foolishness of the feud and is simply done with it. While saying this, he was stabbed which later brought him to death.
Mercuito is upset at the fued between the Capulets and the Montagues. Tybalt and Mercuito end up giving their lives to the "never ending problem" that is between the families. This is a horrible way to try and fix the fued, but in a way it was needed. He curses "both their houses" (the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues) because he mad that himslef and tybalt had to die for the fued to be over. they had to die in order for the wake up call.
He is saying that he will curse both families because Tybalt killed him by stabing him while quareling. When you think of it, it's not completly one persons fault since they decided to fight with eachother. When Mercutio dies though, he is saying he is going to haunt and curse both families.
He is saying that he will curse both families because Tybalt killed him by stabing him while quareling. When you think of it, it's not completly one persons fault since they decided to fight with eachother. When Mercutio dies though, he is saying he is going to haunt and curse both families.
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