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Mercutio And Benvolio's Point Of View

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Most people know the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt from the author, William Shakespeare, but they never heard from Benvolio's point of view. As Mercutio and I were walking in the village, I had a sense that something was going to go wrong. I had this feeling because it was hot and Mercutio gets a little angry when he has been in the heat to long. From my point of view i also saw the truth that when Mercutio said he was hurt i felt it wasn't a joke because he was acting to hurt for it not to be true. My last thought was i saw the anger starting to rise in Mercutio and i started to tell Mercutio let's go. Like I state in the first paragraph when Mercutio and I started walking in the village i had a sense something bad was going to happen. Which is why in the book William Shakespeare states on pg 863 that “ I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, and, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl, or now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” This means since I already knew that Mercutio gets angry when he is in heat to long I also knew that if a Capulet came around Mercutio would wanna quarrel. …show more content…

William Shakespeare ,the author states on pg 864 “ And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.” This indicates that I saw that Mercutio wasn't in the mood to take anything from the Capulets or nobody else because it was hot and he Mercurio was tryna cool down. When i saw that things was starting to get serious I started to try and keep the peace like i always try to do, by saying if they couldn’t settle there differences in somewhere private then they should leave each other alone and go about their

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