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Romeo and Juliet

Swear Words

  • bodily functions
  • religion
  • sex

Topic

Taboo words can change

obscene lines pronounced by Mercutio

  • sexual references such as “prick”
  • "Damned", "Hell", and "Bloody"
  • insults such as “coward”

3 instances which contain some obscene language.

1. Act 1 Scene 2

1

just after the feast,

Mercutio mocks Romeo’s feelings for Rosaline, Romeo's previous crush,

he thinks Romeo is out looking for.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

Now will he sit under a medlar tree

And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit

As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.

O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were

An open arse, and thou a poperin pear

the medlar tree

Act 2 Scene 2

Her vestal livery

is but sick and green

2

The green sickness of virgins

Act 2 scene 3

MERCUTIO: Thy wit (penis) is a very bitter sweeting (sweet apple): it is a most sharp sauce (bitter sauce for food).

ROMEO: And is it not then well served into a sweet goose? - alludes to the proverb 'sweet meat must have sour sauce', suggesting that the sauce (semen) is being served sexually to the goose (prostitute) 

MERCUTIO: O here's a wit of cheverel, (easily stretched leather) that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! (forty-five inches / penis)

3

Topic

  • straightforward personality
  • uses sharp words
  • plays on words
  • tells jokes and puns
  • makes the play interesting and entertaining
  • makes the audence laugh for his funny actions,too

He is energy and life.

To Mercutio love means sex, while Romeo is more romantic and believes in true love.

his strong

final words

“A plague of both your houses,

they have made worm' meat of me”

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