Dear Mercutio,
You are a very loyal friend of Romeo, giving him the support he needs even when he might deny it, like with his issues concerning Rosaline. When he was having love problems you gave him your most honest, simple, and great advice: to treat love as it does you, and to understand that love originates from one's love to love, so that you must therefore be willing to move on from the love that brings you overwhelmingly negative feeling in order to love again. Not only that, but you lightened up the mood for him and everyone with your humor when things were getting uncomfortably deep. Serious and silly all in the best of places. Unfortunately, there is only one flaw in your logic due to taking on the Montague's culture being very close friends with Romeo, and that is hating the Capulets. Because it is in your nature to treat Capulet's harshly and Montagues more nicely, it shrouds your actual opinion of those from both houses. This is especially unfavorable for you because you end up dying after allowing yourself to get involved in that fatal quarrel with Tybalt of the Capulet's, in which you disregarded Romeo completely on dismissing such thoughts. Not something that a "loyal friend" would do (acting without communicating). All Romeo wanted was peace for the sake of his relationship with Juliet which patched up his love problems that you wanted to solve before, and maybe even to put an end to the logic that he was made to believe, but in the end it was all ruined because they both ended up dying after a series of events caused by you fighting Tybalt. If only you had taken the time to evaluate everything before taking action. Well, too bad.
Sincerely, Jason
Your advice to Mercutio was very thoughtful. I agree with you that if Mercutio took the time to actually listen to what Romeo was saying, he would've had ended up being dead.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the sarcastic comment at the end, and your paragraph was quick, yet very precise and on point. Well done.
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