Spinning wild puns left and right seeming to speak them as freely as others breathe mercutio is established as a friend who can gently or not mock romeo as no one else can though thoughtful benvolio does not have the quick wit for such behavior with his wild speech and laughter mercutio is a man of excess. Love and violence fate individuals vs society language and wordplay family and duty summary analysis romeo mercutio benvolio and several of their houses men enter wearing party masks and carrying torches they are planning on sneaking into the capulets feast and romeo is worried about how to do so. Act 1 scene 4 is romeos last chance to turn around before meeting juliet it also introduces us to mercutio perhaps the funniest shakespeare character of them all