Romeo and Juliet

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Compare and Contrast the Characters of

Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio are all characters that feature in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. They are three friends that have extremely different personalities.

At the start of the play in I.i Romeo believes that love is to be involved with hate, serious vanity and he also believes that love is confusion

"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.

Why then, o brawling love, o loving hate,"

"O heavy lightness, serious vanity,"

"Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms,"

It is suggested that Romeo was not always withdraw with loves melancholy because his father Lord Montague and Benvolio comment on his changed humour in I.i.118-157 and in I.iv.

"Could we but learn from whence his sorrow grow,

We would as willingly give cure as know."

Romeo is very fickle because he falls in and out of love instantaneously. This is shown when Romeo is madly and deeply in love with Rosaline,

"In sadness cousin, I do love a woman"

But when he sees Juliet he forgets about Rosaline and falls madly in love with Juliet.

He is caring and extremely loving towards his friends (II.i), you can see how good a friend he is because he always listens to their problems and give good advice for them (I.i.).

Romeo is able to jump over the high walls that surround Juliet's house this shows his love for her and it may also shows his athletic strength.

Benvolio also seems the most grounded member of the group; he seems sensible and is not controlled so much by his emotions.

Mercutio jokes a lot and is a jesting character he is always jolly. He taunts the nurse in II.iv when he says to Peter:

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Approximate Word count = 1077
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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