mercutio

• 'I talk of dreams, which are the children of idle brain, begot of nothing but a vain fantasy'

  • vain- adjective, implys self-centredness, he seems to have a more realistic outlook on love- he is romeos foil
  • fantasy- abstract noun, he is suggesting ideas like love and hate (the forces that govern the outcome of the play) are reflections of peoples selfish delusions
  • AO3- people believed dreams came directly from god, shakespeare often used this for dramatic effect
• 'O calm, dishonourable, vile submission'

  • submission- abstract noun, implys femininity, mercutio sees romeos refusual as unmanly and feminine so to him its wrong and disgusting
  • list of adjectives- emphasises mercutios horror at romeos actions and his quick temper leads him to react too quickly
• 'A plauge a'both your houses'

  • both- pronoun, he is not discriminating between the 2 houses, his anger and hatered is directed at both houses
  • plauge- noun, deadly disease
  • AO3- the plauge would have links the the bubonic plauge that afflicted elizabethen london as well as the biblical plauge that killed all fist born children in egypt (this ultimatley happens to both houses)