Mercutio Oxymoron Analysis

Romeo tells Tybalt, “I do protest I never injur’d thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise” (162). Romeo tells Tybalt he loves him but cannot tell him the reason why, the reason being they are technically family now through his marriage to Juliet. Mercutio grows frustrated because Tybalt calls Romeo a villain, Mercutio believes Tybalt should not get away with being so insulting. Romeo reacts to being called a villain by saying “I love you so I don’t care that you called me a bad name. But you clearly don’t know me very well, goodbye!” He brushes off the comment while Mercutio is infuriated by it. This of course leads to Mercutio and Tybalt’s battle.
Mercutio really blames Romeo for coming between them and getting him hurt, he says

She exclaims, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather’d raven! Wolvish ravening lamb!” (178). Each oxymoron explains a good terrible thing, beauty, doves, but tyrants and fiends. It shows her realization that Romeo is not in fact perfect. It also shows her difficulty to believe that the wholesome, perfect, loving, endearing man she fell in love with and married could be so evil as to kill her cousin. This echoes when Friar Lawrence is in his garden saying, “In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; and where the worser is predominant, full soon the canker death eats up the plant.” (114). Friar Lawrence is commenting also on how people- and plants- have both good and evil within them.
Juliet convinces herself to forgive Romeo for Tybalt’s death. She does this by realizing if Romeo had not killed Tybalt, Tybalt would have killed Romeo. She states, “But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (180). She also points out to herself, “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?...When, I thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?” (180). By this she means how can she speak poorly of my husband only three hours after their wedding, she must stand by him because she promised herself to him and that’s what you do in

The friar says, “What, rouse thee, man! They Juliet is alive, for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead...Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed; ascend her chame; hence, and comfort her. For then thou canst pass to Mantua.” So Friar Lawrence concludes that Romeo should go be with Juliet and then the next day Romeo will escape Verona in a disguise so no one will suspect him, he will live in Mantua until a time is found to tell everyone about the