Compare and Contrast the Characters of Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio are all characters that feature in William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. They are three friends that have extremely different personalities. At the start of the play in I.i Romeo believes that love is to be involved with hate, serious vanity and he also believes that love is confusion “Here’s much to …showed first 75 words of 1118 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1118 total…Mercutio. Benvolio is the friend that keeps all of them together, he is there for Romeo when Romeo is feeling love sick and when Mercutio is talking too much or shouting at Romeo he tell Mercutio to calm down and be quiet. Shakespeare needs to put compassionate Romeo into the play to show what he would do for love, but he also needs Mercutio in the play to lighten the mood and make people laugh.