Question

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has many themes, including the powerful nature of both love and fate. Choose one or more SECONDARY characters in the play (Tybalt, Mercutio, Nurse, Friar Lawrence, or another secondary character of your choice - NOT Romeo or Juliet) and write a 450-500 (minimum) word essay that discusses how this character contributes to the overall theme of the play. You may want to consider some or all of the following in your writing:

Answer 1

*I will provide some ideas for you to write your essay.

Love is a major theme in the play. However, there is more than one kind of love present in it.  The most relevant one is the love between Romeo and Juliet. But then, we can mention friendly love- a friendship which can be represented  Mercutio is Romeo´s best friend. 
Motherly love which can be found in the Nurse and how she protects and takes care of Juliet.
Family love which is found in each family, parents and for example Tybalt as being Juliet´s cousin. 

All of them seems to fulfill their roles in Romeo and Juliet´s life and. at the same time, they contribute to their own fate and the main characters´fate-