Back to Mercutio’s purpose. His obstructive and perverse behavior lays the foreground of romances’ downfall. It’s kind of funny, in a messed up way, that Mercutio dies for a purpose he is unaware of. He doesn’t really like Romeo, in my opinion. His perverse attitude towards Romeo could be seen as contempt which he holds for him. Romeo just gets in the way of things. Mercutio dies because Romeo stands in between him and Tybalt, and Mercutio does not see Tybalts rapier coming at him. He curses both houses with his “a plague ‘o both your houses” bit. And in the end of it all both houses are screwed. They lose their kids. Anyway…enough of this. I need to memorize my stuff, yo.
entry 4
This memorization thing is going a lot smoother. I kinda wish people would take this a bit more seriously and stop bitching about the time they have to spend on it.
entry 3
I’m beginning to understand more of Mercutio’s character. Since the character of Mercutio knows nothing of the real romance story, I am going to remove myself from paying attention to anything that Mercutio is not involved in. Mercutio, just as Autolycus does so in Winter’s Tale, serves as an instrument with which Shakespeare can poke fun at the royalty/wealthy of the show. His sexual perversion of romance almost foreshadows tragedy by degrading the value of romance. With romance not being held widely as a big deal (Juliet’s parents arrange a marriage between her and Paris, whom she does NOT love) the audience can infer from the context of the play a few possibilities of what might be ahead of them.
entry 2
Ben and I haven’t practiced since class. At first I thought this would be frustrating because only three students in the class, including me, have previous acting experience. However, now I wonder if I’ll be able to handle this myself. Alas, I know I’ll pull through.
Entry 1
The character Mercutio is a clown. He’s the kind of guy that everybody loves, while at the same time, he pisses the large majority of people off. He’s a bit of a jackass. He serves to poke fun, and while he is definitely a witty and comedic character; that is certainly not his only purpose. I’ll have to touch more on that in later journal entries. Today ben (benvolio) and I worked on our first scene together. It’s in act II, the one where the pair is searching for Romeo and Mercutio decides it’s a great time to be a jokester. Here is where the jackass-ery is obvious. He decides to turn EVERYTHING, and I mean everything, into something sexual. In the context of the play, and this is new information to me, Mercutio knows nothing of the existence of a relationship between the “star-cross’d lovers.” He believes Romeo loves Rosaline; his love at the beginning of the show. His sexual innuendos are everywhere. He describes Rosaline from head to toe and then toe to genitalia. He talks of Romeo being sexually aroused. Honestly, I don’t think this character will be too hard for me. I’m a jackass too and I say some of the things Mercutio says, in a more modern tone.
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