And vice sometime by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power" (2.3.21-24)
Why is the friar's soliloquy, particularly these lines, placed immediately after the balcony scene???
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"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power" (2.3.21-24) Why is the friar's soliloquy, particularly these lines, placed immediately after the balcony scene???
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Ryan Zimmerman
4/11/2012 09:28:15 pm
I think that he is using the flower as a symbol of Romeo and Juliet's relationship. For example i think he is trying to say either this could be good and unite the familys and bring long awaited peace, and/or this could turn into a deadly war. I think this symbolizes a the realtionship perefectly. They can sniff the flower, make peace and live life together, or they can eat the flower and cause violence and death.
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Aliyah L
4/11/2012 09:28:24 pm
i believe that Shakespeare wrote this right after the balconey scene because he wanted to show that bad things can sometimes be good and good things can sometimes be bad like Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a bad thing but is really good at the same time. Also Romeo and Juliet wanting to get married is a good thing but it turns out for the bad
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Dan
4/11/2012 09:29:36 pm
Beacause Romeo and Juilette have to go about being married very carefuly if they do it wrong there family will be angre and not let them marrry . Also if they do it right, there family may be happy or not know at all. Which kind of proves the point that every desion has a bad and a good side to it.
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Dwalk
4/12/2012 01:10:42 am
hahahahahahah
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Sophia D.
4/11/2012 09:32:28 pm
I believe that theses lines were placed right after the balcony scene because in that scene Romeo and Juliet declare their love to eachother and want to get married. They go to the Friar Lawrence to make this possible. Marriage/love could be good and bad at the same time which is what those few lines are talking about. Love could come back and hurt you like it does in the end because they both die in the end of the story but i could have been a good thing. In the end there deaths bring the two families together but it took something bad to do that.
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Dalton L.
4/11/2012 09:32:35 pm
I feel that this dialogue of the friar is placed right after the balcony scene because he is talking about love and making a comparison of the flower to love. He is saying like love can be a medicine but can also be poison but out of the poising some good can come. This is somewhat of a foreshadow because their love is so sweet Romeo and Juliet die due to their forbidden love they take their lives but in the end of the book it causes the families to settle their differences.
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Josh N
4/11/2012 09:32:51 pm
the reason why is because it is like Romeo is smelling the beautiful flower it has a nice scent. but when Romeo gets closer to Juliet which means he is eating the flower which is poisonous. plus it is speaking about what is going to happen later on in the book. like when we were watching the movie when then commit suicide to be together.
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ian gunn (baby louie)
4/11/2012 09:33:27 pm
It happens right after the balcony scene because they have just fallen in love. It seems like such a beautiful thing at the moment, but there could be a bad thing ahead. It suggests that we don't what could possibly happen when we fall in love, wheter its good or bad. In the case of Romeo and Juliet it goes bad and both of them kill themselves. Which proves that the friar is right.
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Ms. D
4/11/2012 09:37:25 pm
baby louie baby louie baby louieeee
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Ian Anderson
4/11/2012 09:33:35 pm
It is placed after the balcony scene because he is using the flower as a comparison to love. He can use the flower for good purposes saying thaqt love can make people feel good. Then he says that he can also use the flower to kill people saying that love can also hurt people emotionaly.
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Ms. D
4/11/2012 09:40:26 pm
Im tired i need some coffee
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Rob Magee
4/11/2012 09:35:21 pm
I think Friar Lawrences soliloquy is right after the balcony scene because it is explaning that this relationship could either be a real conflict and get the montagues and capulets mad or unite them together. No one knows how the families are going to react but their are only two ways they can and Romeo has a big obstacle to avoid or conquer his enemy Tybalt.
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Dylan Pratzner
4/11/2012 09:36:33 pm
I think that these lines are placed after the balcony sceen because it is trying to say that any person can be bad of good on the inside. I think that these lines are trying to say that this relationship between Romeo and Juliet is going to be bad in the end. Since both of them dont really know eachother well, they may actually be different on the inside.
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Chris Couch
4/11/2012 09:36:50 pm
I think that the Friar has this soliloquy after the balcony scene to foreshadow coming events. He does this with the flower when he say's good things turn to bad things but sometimes bad things are justified. I believe the good thing is Romeo and Juliet falling and love and by it turnining to a bad thing I believ it is referring to when they kill themselves to be together. And in the end their deaths are justified because the families stop fightingbecause of what happened.
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chris cooke
4/11/2012 09:37:05 pm
I think this is placed after the balcony scene because the friar is making a reference to love with his flower.The balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet is all about love and usually a flower is a reference to love.
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Lucey M
4/11/2012 09:37:13 pm
I believe that the friars lines are placed after the balcony scene to show how love (especially Romeo's and Juliet's) can be a good thing and a bad thing but you don't know right away, like when you look at a flower or plant, you usually don't know whether it is good or bad to consume.
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Rocco Carzo
4/11/2012 09:38:21 pm
I feel that the Balcony scene is most famous love scene in the book.The flower refrence is refering it self to a comparison of Romeo and Juliet's love. These lines are placed after the balcony scene because of its popularity and strong love connection the two feel toward each other. These lines are very powerful and were placed after the best connection they have in the book because of the strength of this short lines
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amy li
4/11/2012 09:38:53 pm
"Virtue itself turns vice,being misapplied." Like the friar lawrence want to help Romeo and Juliet being together. But it become a tragedy."Poison hath residence and medicine power: For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part. Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart." By helping them together, the Friar made some liquild, if you drink it. You will look like you are deid but after 24 hours you will woke up. It is a virtue thing, but Romeo think Juliet was deid, so they all deid a end. It shows virtue thing become to a vice thing.
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Will 5tR8 Chillin Denney
4/11/2012 09:39:12 pm
I think that Friar Lawrence's soliloquy is right after the balcony scene because it is showing what could happen to Romeo and Juliet. By Romeo and Juliet getting married good or bad could come out of it. This could end the fighting between the familys or it could make it worse. That is what Friar is saying when he says, "Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power" (2.3.21-24)
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Khalil Streeter
4/11/2012 09:39:19 pm
I believe that the friar said this after the balcony scene because even though Romeo and Juliet love each other very much. Its some people that are not happy about this and want to kill both of them for what they are doing. when he refers to the flower and how it can be posionius of medicne, he is making that referance that there love can either benifit them or destroy them. Each family would be very opposed to this love if they knew that it was going on. this is were the vice comes in, the families would much rather them kill each other than love one another.
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jack O.
4/11/2012 09:40:07 pm
i think it is placed after the balcony scene because it is a refrence to love and it show how it can get out of hand if it is not watched.
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Ms. D
4/11/2012 09:41:01 pm
Someone turn up the temp, its freezing in here!!
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Judy Xia
4/11/2012 09:52:13 pm
I think it is a clue about the things will happen. Romeo and Juliet are in love is a good thing that they find their truly love, but it would cause the fihgt between Capulet and Montague again, it has the ability to make vilence. So it turns bad. And after Mercutio and Tybalt's fight, Mercutio dies. Fight is a bad thing, but it shows the friendship between Romeo and Mercutio, this is dignified. Finally, because Juliet wants to be with Romeo, she drinks a kind of poison to pretend death. It is a good way to be with who she really want. The poison is just medicine at first. But, Romeo dies by knowing Juliet's "death". Medicine turns to the poison.
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11/17/2012 10:25:03 pm
I love to eat my boogers while i sleep. I think Romeo and Juliet is a bitch to read and i hate SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much! ;) ;P ;-) :-( :-------()()()()()()(
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