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.
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