Essay On Mercutio And Tybalt In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Mercutio and Tybalt play a key role in this play, with their escalation of the Montague and Capulet feud. With Tybalt’s killing of Mercutio, the conflict concludes with Romeo Montague killing Tybalt Capulet and being sentenced to exile,”And for that offense immediately we do exile him hence.”, and becomes a driving force in the Montague and Capulet conflict (3.1.185-186). Meanwhile, the previously blissful happiness of the two enemy heirs turned lovers is thrown to the wind as a whirlwind of emotions strikes Romeo as he struggles to cope with his banishment and Juliet’s conflict with loving Romeo even after he has killed her cousin. The banishment is the beginning of the end for Romeo and Juliet, resulting in the untimely deaths of these rivals