Everything in life has the potential to be both good and evil. In Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, there are many contrasts between, people, words, things, and actions. Shakespeare warns us that nature is the source of both life and destruction. In Act II scene iii, Friar Lawrence addresses in a monologue the binary traits of nature.

In act II scene iii, the Friar is outside picking plants which he can use in mixing various herbs and medicines. He says he must fill up his wicker basket. All alone, the Friar begins to talk to himself. The Friar says, "plants can be mickle." Friar Lawrence picks one plant and he mentions how it has two different properties, it is poison and also a medicine. The scent of it can heal, and the taste will kill. "Virtue becomes vice", he says, explaining how when good things are abused can they can become destructive. His soliloquy compares nature to men. Both have potential for creating life and destroy it. Dualities exist together in a fragile relationship to eachother throughout this tragic story and in the end, there is no celebration of life, no wedding, only deaths and funerals and the hope of new realtionships and dualities to begi

In my life there are events, people and things and traits that could be labeled as either good or bad. I think that the separation of my parents is a good example of a event that resulted in both good and bad in my life. As a whole idea "separation" was hurtful and sad to me. There was pain and sorrow of course, but I didn't loose the relationship I had with my "parents", but it changed. Rather than one relationship with both my parents, in the separation I gained two completely different and wonderful relationships. In the end they resolved their problems and I was left with two positive things. Even if they didn't resolve their problems, I feel that I would have befitted some by gaining two relationships. So, therefore, I believe that all relationships contain a element of good and bad too.

An example of good and bad is in the characters of the play. Like every person the characters are balanced with both good and evil. Romeo is a young man who is so caring and full of love that he makes sure no one hurts those he loves. He is impulsive, fickle and so naive. He lives to love, and is known as a good kid. He is against killing and being involved in the feud. But, when his best friend Mercutio is killed by Tybolt, he insists on revenge, on killing Tybolt. Does this make him a bad person? No, I don't think so, but I do feel that killing someone is wrong and what this pr

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