Monday, April 26, 2010
Mercutio's Proclamation Revisited
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? Is this a commentary regarding fate? How does it relate to the rest of Act III? What is your understanding of the lines and its recitation in Act III?
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that hate is the real aspect of this plague.
I can't quite tell what he is suggesting. I don't really understand what he is saying at all.
Mercrutio is proclaiming that this feud between the houses caused his death and therefore should be settled. I think this is also a metaphor for the feud tearing apart the relationship between romeo and juliet.
I think that he is saying that this will come back like karma.
i think that here mercutio is really just mad that hes gonna die and he want something bad to happen to both the capulets and the montagues. because now he relizes its dumb for them to fight if its gonna result in death. i also think it is a bit ironic, because in the end of the play both houses do indeed have a 'plague' which is really just the death of romeo and juliet.
Mercutio is suggesting that both houses (Montagues and Capulets) will end up in a disaster because they are fighting so much. He is warning them that if they keep acting the same way that they currently are then their fates will be very bad. This quote is definitely regarding fate, in saying that if they don't change their ways, their futures will be bad. Act three is where everything starts going bad because Romeo kills tybalt and gets banished and Juliet is suppose to get married to Paris. This is the most dramatic and cruel act that we have read so far.
Mercutio is saying that the fight caused his death and the families should get along. He is also stating that the "plague" is the hate between the two families.
The jist of what he is saying that his death should end the fued between the two houses. Beacause the fighting has killed many people and it is stupid.
When Mercutio says these words he is suggesting that they made him an unworthy man, thats what i think of. Because when i think of worms its not really that worms are the most attractive or pleasant things. When he says this I think he means that he will just fall to the ground like another man, instead of doing something great. Truly im kinda stumped by this quotation. Like I said im not sure how this relates to the rest of Act 3. Maybe when Friar Laurence says that Romeo needs to get up and be a man is what he means, and is saying not be someone who will just fall over and cry. Ahh, i really don't know.
Mercutio is suggesting that the hatred if their two families has caused him to die. I think this is more than dying remarks. I think it has a lot to do with fate because the families couldn't keep fighting like they have in the past without one of them dying. It was bound to happen. Since Mercutio is the one dead it has a big affect on everyone since he was a good family friend not necessarily part of the family and I think thats why Mercutio told everyone his realization before he died.
he is suggesting that because of the hatred between the two houses he was stabbed and killed. it relates to the rest of act 3 by giving it more to the story and setting the stage for what is to come over the two lovers
I think that he is saying that the two house will fight more because of them and that he has put a plague on them both
he is saying that the fued between the families is not worth fighting if it means innocent people are being killed so the Capulets and Montegues should settle this fued so more people wont be killed.
Mercutio is suggesting that since they two families are in such a feud, eventually something that happens will result in death. I don't think this is regarding fate, I think it is saying that death will eventually happen between the two families. This relates to the rest of act three because now since Tybalt and Mercutio have been killed, the two families are in mourning. They have to go on with their lives and accept that these two families will probably always hate eachother.
When Mercutio makes this proclamation, he is suggesting that he wishes bad things are thrust upon these families. This could be more than an observation, simply implying he knows what will happen to Romeo and Juliet. This could be regarding fate, and a coincidence. Both being that Romeo and Juliet die; this could be fate because he cursed them, or just a coincidence because they died. This relates to Act III because Tybalt dies and Romeo is banished.
Its like a fight between both of the families and that they are kind of putting them him in the middle. He is always getting into fights with the other family and they should stop putting him in the middle of things. Well his telling them that he would practically die for doing all the stuff. His always criticizing the Capulet's and thats how he will get himself to die.
I think that Merciutio is making a statement of fate at the misfortune of the two houses in the end of the book.
I think this quote is explain how the feud between the two families has killed him and how if it doesn't get resolved, he hopes that they die so no one else has to die, like he did. He doesn't actually want anyone to die he just wants the feud to die between them, because he got killed in between there fight over who is better when they are both the same.
This fits well into Act 3 because it is the act where everything changes. What Mercutio says about "A plague o' both your houses" just is saying that not only have they made trouble between Mercutuio, Romeo, and Tybalt, but with all the Capulet's and Montague's. Mercutuio's death was a "freak" accident where men were fooling around when it got out oof hand, this is another reason it falls so well into this act. It shows how things in this story were not all on purpose or planned out most of it just happened. These lines to me mean that not only have they killed Mercutio, but they have made both families in a even bigger feud, that killing and murder cannot even fix. Plus death is spreading...like a plague.
The quote suggests that Mercutio is proclaiming that because of the two families fighting all the time he is now going to die so they both earn to die as well or "get the plague".
I think Mercutio is telling that both the families need to stop fighting with each other. Something bad is going to happen. Mercutio seems to be foreshadowing the tragedy that happens at the end of this story. Mercutio's dieing is just the beginning of the bad times ahead.
This quote is foreshadowing the book. It's talking about the feud between the two families, and it is cursing them in a way. He is saying something bad will come along(a plague) and it will kill your houses. (Obviously Romeo and Juliet in the end). This foreshadows because it is hinting that in the future the feud between the two families will cause a plague(or death). This quote is very powerful, and it relates to act 3 because it relates to the murder of Tybalt by Romeo's sword.
I think this quote explains how the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues has killed Mercutio. All he wants is the feud to end because it has killed him because he got between the two families. He doesn't want anyone else to die because of the hate between the families.
His dying observation is the feud between the two families is just stupid. It has killed him and that they will all be killed if they keep up the feud.
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