mercutio thinks his family is tormenting Romeo.
Perhaps you should re-read the book
Romeo has just been told of the death of his friend Mercutio at the hands of Tybalt when Tybalt appears on the scene. Romeo says "Here you are still alive and happy to have won the fight! And my friend Mercutio is dead!"
Actually, Mercutio is killed in Act III Scene 1 when he duels Tybalt. Romeo tries to stop the fight, by throwing himself between the two, but Tybalt manages to stab Mercutio under Romeo's arm.
Tybalt is angry because Romeo and his friends (including Mercutio) crashed the Capulet party, and really angry because Lord Capulet wouldn't allow Tybalt to throw them out of the party. Tybalt tries to get Romeo to swordfight with him, but Romeo (who is by now secretly married to Tybalt's cousin Juliet) refuses and tries to make peace with Tybalt. Mercutio is enraged that his cousin Romeo won't fight, and says that if Romeo won't fight Tybalt then he will. Tybalt and Mercutio begin swordfighting. Romeo, still trying to achieve a peaceful solution, jumps between the two and tries to push Mercutio safely away from Tybalt. This makes it impossible for Mercutio to use his sword to defend himself. Tybalt, seeing Mercutio's chest exposed under Romeo's upraised arm, fatally stabs the defenseless Mercutio.
In the fight between mercuito and Tybalt: Tybalt comes into the court place and mercutio starts egging him on. Pretty soon they start fighting but its not a serious fight. Tybalt is really waiting to kill romeo because he is mad at him for going to the capulets party. Then romeo shows up and he doesnt want to kill Tybalt bc he is now married to Juliet and they are technicaly cousins. Tybalt doesnt know this and he is still fighting mercutio. Then romeo interferes to stop the fight but Tybalt accidentaly stabs mercutio when romeo gets in the way which kills mercutio. Then romeo goes to avenge mercutio and he ends of stabbing Tybalt, who then dies. Then romeo is banished to mantua by the prince.
Romeo tries to prevent Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting by stepping between them. Mercutio gets distracted by Romeo and this gives Tybalt a chance to stab Mercutio. By trying to keep the peace, Romeo accidentally causes the death of his best friend.
The prince states that Romeo shall be banished instead of being put to death for killing Tybalt. Tybalt killed kin of the Prince, Mercutio, so it was justified, but still a wrongdoing.
1. Mercutio obviously would have been better off. 2. If Mercutio hadn't died, Romeo wouldn't have attacked Tybalt and killed him and got himself into deep trouble. Romeo would have been better off 3. From Tybalt's point of view, he would have been better off had he not killed Mercutio since he'd still be alive. 4. From Juliet's point of view I'm sure she would prefer not to have her cousin killed and her husband banished. 5. The Prince would be better off not losing his kinsman. 6. The Capulets would have preferred to have Tybalt alive and had no reason to wish Mercutio dead. It would have been better for them had Mercutio not died. 7. The Montagues might have thought that a world without Tybalt was a better place, but not at the cost of Romeo's freedom. All, in all, it would have been better if Mercutio had not died.
Romeo finds out that Juliet is apparently dead; he buys poison; he goes to Verona; he goes to the tomb; he meets Paris, fights and kills him; drinks poison and dies; Juliet wakes up and kills herself; the bodies are discovered; Friar Lawrence explains what happened; Montague and Capulet reconcile.
Immediately after Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet at the party in Capulet's palace, Romeo feels he loves Juliet so much he cannot go home, so when he hears his friends calling for him he hides. Mercutio knows Romeo is somewhere in the vicinity and sends loudly mocks him for being a silly lover. Mercutio believes that Romeo is still in love with Rosaline, and so he calls out: I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us! Act 2, Scene 1, lines 17-21
in act 3 scene one in Romeo and Juliet, mercutio and Tybalt start a fight then romeo tries to stop the fight. because this scene was after the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, then Tybalt would now be related to romeo. Tybalt does not know the fact that they got married, so when Romeo tries to stop the fight, he completely ignores him. to make this a bit shorter, Tybalt kills mercutio. now romeo and Tybalt now duel. and then romeo kills Tybalt. earlier the prince said whoever disturbs the streets of Verona again will be killed. so he has a very hard decision to make. you see, mercutio was the princes nephew and according to what the prince said earlier, romeo did what was going to happen anyways. but in the end romeo does not win and he is exiled from Verona.
Tybalt is ready to fight every time we see him or hear about him. We see him causing a street brawl to escalate at the beginning of Act 1. We see him trying to turn a dinner party into a brawl at the end of Act 1. In Act 2 we hear that he has challenged Romeo, trying to start a fight again, and Mercutio describes him as a professional duellist and swordsman. In Act 3 we find him roaming the streets looking to start a fight with Romeo, but when Romeo won't fight, Tybalt is happy to fight with Mercutio instead. All this man cares about is fighting. He is not necessarily angry about anything in particular, but will use anything as an excuse to start a fight. Mercutio's description of a quarrelsome man fits him admirably.
Mercutio, apparently a haunted former soldier, could, perhaps be termed a "nihilist". His attitude towards love, therefore, is the same as his attitude towards just about everything else: it's all ultimately meaningless. Despite this, Mercutio has an immense appetite for life's simple pleasures (friendship, drink, wordplay, horseplay, swordplay), but he has killed for the state, has seen death, and he senses the futility of life and all its machinations (such as the ancient and pointless ongoing feud between two otherwise perfectly respectable families). Mercutio is given to us by Shakespeare as something of a foil for his friend, Romeo. Younger and still idealistic, Romeo does not live as recklessly as Mercutio, but, because of his aged cynicism, Mercutio would seem incapable of loving anybody with the same dedication as Romeo.Find text to back this up yourself. Scan all of Mercutio's monologues and exchanges with Romeo. Look for the word "love" to begin with, but also take note of his fun-loving yet fatalistic approach to all things. Personally, I would begin with the "Queen Mab" monologue, beginning in Act 1, scene 4, line 53...