Man Mercurio, how couldn't have you seen his coming? You were set up as such an interesting, funny, creative character. But you were torn down. Killed. Used to further the story. You served as a symbol for Romeo's internal chaos, the so-called demon on his shoulder and you should have seen it. The conflict of the story is driven because Romeo's rage is no longer contained, and he unleashes it on Tybalt. Via this, your character is one of the most important to the story, you add to Romeo as a character and when you die, you are his motivation. Beyond even Juliet, he kills her cousin, for you.
You serve as Romeo's "devil" the dark side of him. You spout about fantasies and "Queen Mab" but truly, you are Romeo's chaos. You represent what to him is a kind of "true love" as his true love for Juliet is material. You always speak of sexual, material love and you represent in a sense, that true, but material love.
You are Shakespeare's (Don't ask who he is) way of finding a balance between true and material love. You are- even though seemingly a force of lust and material love- the real balance, true love and material love as one. When you are killed you represent chaos returning to Romeo, but also true love leaving him. He becomes emotional and violent (Tybalt's slaying and his attempted suicide) but also loses his true love for Juliet and becomes violent and rash (his actual suicide). You are the embodiment of range and physical, material love. But at the same time, the closest we get to true love.
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