EN 3620 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Counterpoint, Solipsism, Irony
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Romeo and juliet act 3: benvolio and mercutio wait for romeo on a verona street. Tybalt and petruccio see them first, and start a quarrel. However, mercutio challenges tybalt to a duel, so he draws his sword and attacks mercutio. While romeo is restraining him, tybalt stabs mercutio and then exits quickly: mercutio is mortally wounded, and chastises the montagues and capulets for encouraging such violence before allowing benvolio to lead him offstage. Benvolio soon returns with news that mercutio has died. Romeo vows revenge on tybalt, who soon reappears. Romeo and tybalt duel, and romeo kills tybalt. Benvolio warns him that the prince will come soon: the prince, followed by the montague and capulet families, arrives on the scene. Benvolio tells him the entire story, but the prince refuses to hold romeo blameless. Instead, he banishes romeo from verona, insisting the boy will die if he does not obey.
