Why does mercutio say tomorrow you will find me a grave man?

Answer 1

Revenge A+

Answer 2

It's a pun because Mercutio wasn't a serious man, and grave has 2 meanings: 1. serious, 2. burial site.

This pun is used by Mercutio when he gets wounded by the sword and is dying, so even though the phraseology "grave man" indicates that he is referring to himself as serious, he is actually referring to himself as dead... a man in a grave.

Answer 3

Mercutio says this because he cannot help making jokes. He knows he is dying. He tells his friends that tomorrow he will be a grave man, which on the face of it means that he will be serious tomorrow. But he really means that tomorrow he will be a man in a grave, because he will be dead.

Answer 4

Mercutio is struggling with the reality of his own death. His first reaction is to be funny--to make a pun. But it is not funny at all. It is intensely sad and pathetic. In fact, his attempt to make light of his fatal wound make us feel even sorrier for him than we otherwise would. In the end, Mercutio feels anger at his impending death, and he directs that anger at Romeo and at all of the feuding Veronese ("both your houses"). We see Romeo redirecting that anger from himself to Tybalt. So, from pathos, the mood shifts abruptly to anger. then Romeo wants to kill Tybalt.

Answer 5

Mercutio says this as a witty play on words, implying that he will be in his grave tomorrow due to his impending death. It also serves as a dark foreshadowing of his fate in the play, where he is fatally wounded.