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1 year ago
I do think hands down the best Shakespearean death goes to mercutio like. It's just so Rich. This isn't some dime a dozen lamenting- Mercutio is a cocksure young man who thought he was never gonna die and the realization that he is in fact dying hits him hard, but he can't stop making jokes? Like the jokes are so loaded they're his gut reaction + defensive mechanism but he's also so scared and angry! And up until this point he was all in for the feuding but you just hear in his last words how he realized that he truly just threw his whole life away for absolutely nothing. Like... Oh the layers
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musings — riff lorton
look. look i get that riff’s death is somewhat similar bc he is The Mercutio Character BUT!
this kills me anyway
ugh
god i need to write up a thing about how wss is a tragedy and how everyone in it was doomed before it even started just by virtue of the
characters they represented
or maybe i’m reading too much into it
who knows ??
either way this is so riff it hurts (and i get that it’s So Riff bc riff is mercutio but still)
let me have my pain