This document summarizes and analyzes a scene from Act 3 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes 5 quotations from the scene along with explanations of how each quotation increases the dramatic tension. The quotations show Mercutio trying to defuse tensions between Romeo and Tybalt, their insults escalating the conflict, and Mercutio cursing both houses before his death, which he sees as the beginning of further tragedy to come for the two families.