Tybalt

• "What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death" - Act 1 scene 1


  -Tybalt is obsessed with status, etiquette and violence to prove his worth

  -he embodies everything wrong with the masculine code of honour- duelling as expression of masculinity

  - Dismisses servants as "heartless hinds" which demonstrates animal imagery and patriarchal dismissal of women

  -"death"- meant to show his power howver everything beforehand e.g. "thumb biting" undermines this so audience just see him as inmature
• "Now by the stock and honour of my kin, to strike home dead i hold it not a sin" - Act 1 scene 5


  -turning point that leads to Tybalt death

  -soliloquy which shows these are his true thoughts

  -shows his hate has redirected onto just Romeo

  - his hubris caused his tragic fate

  -masculine attachment to "honour" leads to his death
• "Thou art a villain" - Act 3 scene 1


  -insults Romeo- dishonest and lower class

  -Honour was important in Elizabethan era

  -meant to provoke Romeo into fighting which causes mercutio to fight

  -ultimately causing his own death