Shakespeare presents Romeo and Americium’s friendship as frivolous and light- hearted but caring. Shakespeare shows this through the dialogue when Mercuric says, “Nay gentle, Romeo, we must have you dance. ” Mercuric is trying to cheer Romeo up to have fun and forget about Rosalie. Shakespeare uses the imperative “must” to suggest to the audience that there is control in the friendship as Mercuric wants Romeo back to himself because Mercuric thinks Romeo has lost his way and needs to be brought back to himself. The adjective “gentle” is used by Shakespeare to convey how fond Mercuric is of
Romeo, but is said by Mercuric through humor showing the audience how light-hearted and frivolous Mercuric is. The frivolous and light-heartiness is one-sided in the friendship telling the audience that Romeo and Mercuric isn’t the same. The adjective “gentle” is also used to show the audience how fragile and easily hurt Romeo is which gives the audience an insight into Romeos character. Shakespeare then use the collective pronoun “we” to show the audience that Mercuric sees Romeos problems as his own showing the audience how caring Mercuric is of Romeo. This makes the audience feel that there is support and care in their friendship.
This allocates the audience feel sorry for Romeo being so focused on love because he’s heart always gets broken and Americium’s support and care may cheer up the audience up. Romeo and Americium’s friendship is presented by Shakespeare as a caring friendship. This is shown to the audience when Mercuric says,” Prick love for pricking , And you beat love down. ” Mercuric is giving Romeo advice ,which is to fight back at love for giving him heartache ,which shows the audience the are in their friendship and that Mercuric wants to see Romeo happy, again, showing the audience he cares.
Shakespeare uses repetition of the word “love” to reinforce that Americium’s view of love is different to Romeos showing the differences in their friendship and that they aren’t the same as they have different personalities. Shakespeare uses the metaphor, “Prick love for pricking And you beat love down. ” This metaphor is used by Shakespeare to imply that, again, he is giving him advice to move on which shows even more care in their friendship. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing, which is that love is violent, to tell the audience that Romeo will get over his heartache as he moves on to love Juliet.
The audience may feel that Mercuric genuinely cares for Romeo and wants him to be happy, even though they have different views on love, but they may feel it’s not the best friendship as Mercuric doesn’t offer Romeo the sensitivity he needs. Shakespeare presents Romeo and Americium’s friendship as caring in and witty and sarcastic way. This is shown to the audience by Shakespeare when Mercuric says,” you are a lover borrow cupid’s wings and soar with them above common bound. Mercuric is trying to cheer Romeo up in a sarcastic way to try and make him laugh and show Mercuric wants him to enjoy himself, which shows the audience that he cares. Shakespeare uses the metaphor,” borrow cupid’s wings and soar with them above common bound. ” The metaphor is advice to imply to the audience that Romeo is cupid in the situation as he falls in love easily and he needs to be free from love and fly away from it to be back to himself. The metaphor also is giving the audience n insight into his character, which is that he falls in love all the time telling us he is a romantic.
Mercuric is being serious but trying to make it seem a joke to cheer Romeo up telling the audience that he does care for Romeo by being sarcastic in a funny and witty way, but meaning no harm. Romeo and Americium’s friendship is presented by Shakespeare as a loyal friendship. This is shown by Shakespeare through the dialogue when Romeo says,”and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! ” This tells the audience that Romeo is loyal to Mercuric is loyal to Romeo. Shakespeare uses alliteration fire-eyed fury’ which used to reinforce how frustrated Romeo is and “fire- eyed fury”‘ is used as a metaphor by Shakespeare to reinforce how angry Romeo is. Incubation is also used to show Romeos anger to the audience, The word “conduct’ is used by Shakespeare to foreshadow the impact of Table’s death, where Romeo killed Table because Table killed Mercuric when Mercuric was protecting Romeo, which shows the audience the loyalty in Romeo and Americium’s friendship. This may make the audience feel that Shakespeare is foreshadowing that love wont be as easy and because Romeo s angry it may hint to the audience that it is something to do with his actions. Shakespeare presents Romeo and Venison’s friendship as a caring and reliable friendship.
This is shown through the dialogue by Shakespeare when Benevolent says,” I’ll pay that doctrine or else die in debt. ” Benevolent is the more emotional friend who you would rely on as he cares for Romeos sensitive side and his emotions. The use of the verb “die” is used by Shakespeare to tell the audience how much Benevolent cares and would do anything for Romeo as he loves unconditionally, as they are cousins. Although Mercuric did die for Romeo which tells the audience he equally cares but has a different way of showing his care for Romeo.
Hyperbole is used by Shakespeare to show the audience that Benevolent, again, really cares for Romeo and would do anything for him showing how reliable Benevolent is showing he is the more reliable friend than Mercuric. This might make the audience feel that both Benevolent and Mercuric care, but Benevolent has a better way of showing it as he offers Romeo more support. Think that both friendships are good friendships to have, nut Romeo and Venison’s friendship was best because he was a more emotional friend and he cared more for Romeos emotions.
