Admin Who says I am hurt a plague o both your houses I am sped?
MERCUTIO
Act 3 Scene 1
| Original Text | Modern Text |
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| MERCUTIO I am hurt. A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped. 60Is he gone and hath nothing? | MERCUTIO I’ve been hurt. May a plague curse both your families. I’m finished. Did he get away clean? |
| BENVOLIO What, art thou hurt? | BENVOLIO What, are you hurt? |
Who says the following lines 5 points a plague o both your houses they have made worms meat of me I have it and soundly too your houses?
MERCUTIO Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it, And soundly too: your houses!
Who said a plague on both your houses and why is it important?
How is Mercutio’s quote, “A plague o’ both your houses,” in act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, important to the story? This quote by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet is important to the story because it tells us that both the Montagues and the Capulets are responsible for the play’s tragic events.
Why does Mercutio say a plague o both houses?
“A plague o’ both your houses,” is a curse. Mercutio is renouncing any and all allegiance he previously had to the Montague house and cursing both houses indiscriminately. He does this because he believes that it is the feud that has lead to his death and he wants to symbolically get revenge.
Who is Romeo’s cousin in a plague on both your houses?
In this confusing scene, Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, peeved that Romeo had crashed a Capulet family ball, comes with sword drawn looking for the young lover and his cohorts. Romeo (now married to Juliet) at first refuses to be provoked by Tybalt, which enrages Romeo’s mercurial friend Mercutio.
What does Shakespeare say about a plague on both your houses?
Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! I am hurt. A plague a’ both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing? Mercutio’s famous line might not be exactly the one Shakespeare wrote: instead of “a’ both your houses,” various old editions have “on your houses,” “a’ both the houses,” “of both the houses,” and “a’ both houses.”
What does Mercutio say about plague on both your houses?
Mercutio, chagrined and disgusted, cries “a plague a’ both your houses”—the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague—and complains that Tybalt has escaped unscathed. Shortly, after Mercutio has died and Tybalt has returned, Romeo, provoked once more, pays back the deed, kills Tybalt, and is therefore forced to flee Verona.
Where does Mercutio come from in Romeo and Juliet?
In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio doesn’t belong to either the Capulet or the Montague house, but he definitely has some allegiance to the latter. Because of this, it’s startling when Mercutio curses both houses.