Mercutio can best be described as cynical. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, he displays a sharp wit and a skeptical attitude towards love and fate, often making sarcastic remarks about both. His cynicism ultimately leads to his fatal duel with Tybalt.
Mercutio teases Romeo about his love sickness regarding Rosaline in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." Mercutio mocks Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline and portrays love in a cynical and humorous light.
Mercutio takes a mocking and cynical attitude toward Romeo's lovesickness. He often teases Romeo and encourages him to move on from his infatuation with Rosaline. Mercutio believes that Romeo's romantic woes are trivial and that he should focus on enjoying life.
All of those words describe Shakespeare. He could be very humorous, when writing comic scenes like the Porter scene in Macbeth, or the scene in Much Ado About Nothing when Don Pedro et al get Benedick to believe Beatrice loves him. King Lear is incredibly pessimistic, and Shakespeare wrote pessimistic characters like jaques in As You Like It. Romeo and Juliet on the other hand is fatalistic. And Shakespeare could write cynical plays like Troilus and Cressida, and cynical poetry like "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun."
Romeo takes love seriously; Mercutio does not.
A person who has no love for human beings may be described as misanthropic, cynical, or cold-hearted.
A person who thinks nasty things could be described as pessimistic, cynical, or having a negative mindset.
The dragon in "Beowulf" serves as a symbol of greed and destruction. In "Grendel," the dragon represents nihilism and reveals to Grendel the cyclical nature of life and inevitability of his fate. The dragon influences Grendel's worldview, pushing him towards a more cynical and fatalistic outlook.
Dido was the Queen of Carthage in Roman mythology. In Mercutio's speech from Romeo and Juliet, he references Dido in a somewhat cynical and mocking way to portray the idea of unrequited love and its consequences.
In this sentence, "cynical" is an adjective modifying the pronoun "she." It describes her attitude or behavior.
Cynical can only be an adjective.
The noun form for the adjective cynical is cynicalness. Another noun form is cynicism.
Cynical Skin was created on 2012-01-08.