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Friar Laurence: A Message in Nature(A Romeo and Juliet Paper)

Friar Laurence: A Message in Nature


"Nature has no principles. She...makes no distinction between good and evil. - Anatole France.
Nature possesses no conscience. It doesn't know the difference between good and evil and allows them to exist together equally. Everything in nature holds both beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and positive and negative. Friar Laurence's passage that begins Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" describes nature's processes and relates it back to the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. We all need to learn from nature how to balance ourselves and the constructive and destructive forces that coexist within ourselves as they exist in nature.
"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequ'ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light;
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels" (Shakespeare 1-4).
This statement describes a ...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

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