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Ok, can anyone hook a brutha up with some Shakespeare
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| Vlad |
| Ok look, I need a characterization of the character Mercutio (from Romeo & Juliet, for those who dont know - which has to be little to none of you). Anyone have anything on him? I already have about 2 pages, another page or 2 of bull would be nice. I really need an A on this paper to redeem myself cause Ive been doing so crappy in this Shakespeare class. I wish I had a teacher that actually knew how to teach a class. |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Ok look, I need a characterization of the character Mercutio (from Romeo & Juliet, for those who dont know - which has to be little to none of you). Anyone have anything on him? I already have about 2 pages, another page or 2 of bull would be nice. I really need an A on this paper to redeem myself cause Ive been doing so crappy in this Shakespeare class. I wish I had a teacher that actually knew how to teach a class. |
google.com is a wonderful thing.
NOT trying to scam some work of a messageboard. hehehhe.
Have you finished your homework, young man/ |
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| Boomer187 |
With a lightning-quick wit and a clever mind, Mercutio is a scene stealer and one of the most memorable characters in all of Shakespeare’s works. Though he constantly puns, jokes, and teases—sometimes in fun, sometimes with bitterness—Mercutio is not a mere jester or prankster. With his wild words, Mercutio punctures the romantic sentiments and blind self-love that exist within the play. He mocks Romeos self-indulgence just as he ridicules Tybalt’s hauteur and adherence to fashion. The critic Stephen Greenblatt describes Mercutio as a force within the play that functions to deflate the possibility of romantic love and the power of tragic fate. Unlike the other characters who blame their deaths on fate, Mercutio dies cursing all Montagues and Capulets. Mercutio believes that specific people are responsible for his death rather than some external impersonal force.
Shakespeare includes numerous speeches and scenes in Romeo and Juliet that hint at alternative ways to evaluate the play. Shakespeare uses two main devices in this regard: Mercutio and servants. Mercutio consistently skewers the viewpoints of all the other characters in play: he sees Romeo’s devotion to love as a sort of blindness that robs Romeo from himself; similarly, he sees Tybalt’s devotion to honor as blind and stupid. His punning and the Queen Mab speech can be interpreted as undercutting virtually every passion evident in the play. Mercutio serves as a critic of the delusions of righteousness and grandeur held by the characters around him.
Where Mercutio is a nobleman who openly criticizes other nobles, the views offered by servants in the play are less explicit. There is the Nurse who lost her baby and husband, the servant Peter who cannot read, the musicians who care about their lost wages and their lunches, and the Apothecary who cannot afford to make the moral choice, the lower classes present a second tragic world to counter that of the nobility. The nobles’ world is full of grand tragic gestures. The servants’ world, in contrast, is characterized by simple needs, and early deaths brought about by disease and poverty rather than dueling and grand passions. Where the nobility almost seem to revel in their capacity for drama, the servants’ lives are such that they cannot afford tragedy of the epic kind.
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*warning, if you copy and paste this, you will get busted for plagarism** |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
*warning, if you copy and paste this, you will get busted for plagarism** |
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHHA!
yay. |
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| Vlad |
Ok, I would prefer original work that I WONT get caught for plagarising. :tongue2
Im gonna take a guess and say you got that from Spark Notes. |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Ok, I would prefer original work that I WONT get caught for plagarising. :tongue2
Im gonna take a guess and say you got that from Spark Notes. |
Dude, why don'tchya just get off the messageboards, and chatrooms, and do your work yourself?
Jeeze. |
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| Vlad |
| I did... most of it, but Im not good at bs'ing, Im a very concise and to the point writer. |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
I did... most of it, but Im not good at bs'ing, Im a very concise and to the point writer. |
Well, obviously you've been looking for shortcuts on the internet right? Use one as a model, and look at how each writer elaborates each point.
Maybe you just need to invest a little more time in your research.
I'm sorry if I'm sounding like an ass... but ya gotta do your work, hon. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Ok, I would prefer original work that I WONT get caught for plagarising. :tongue2
Im gonna take a guess and say you got that from Spark Notes. |
hell yeah, you can only expect your help to be as lazy as you.
if anyone was feeling ambitious enough to help you if might be worth your time to post up what you have, that way they know where to start bsin.
I for one am not going to help you. Mainly because I have not touched this play in many years. |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
I for one am not going to help you. Mainly because I have not touched this play in many years. |
Yeah, me either.
When is this due? I'd guess that it's probably due... on say, Monday?
You know, you probably could have gotten some work done on it, if you weren't waiting around on the internet for someone to do your work for you. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jiffy
Yeah, me either.
When is this due? I'd guess that it's probably due... on say, Monday?
You know, you probably could have gotten some work done on it, if you weren't waiting around on the internet for someone to do your work for you. |
we can't always assume the worse, even though signs are pointing that way.
thats what turned the last help me on my homework thread into a flame war :).
speaking of...I need to start studying. |
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| Jiffy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
we can't always assume the worse, even though signs are pointing that way.
thats what turned the last help me on my homework thread into a flame war :).
speaking of...I need to start studying. |
Well, then get TO it, mah boy. hehehe. |
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