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In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare forms a connection between both religious love and romantic love by using duality in his work. Duality is when the words mean one thing and the image formed in our minds by the reading mean another.
To express his view of good and evil in every man, William Shakespeare
writes lines that Friar Laurence reveals in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
which compare man to plants, focusing on the common trait they hold of having
two contrasting components in their being. Throughout history, there has always
been a conflict with the view of goodness and evilness in man. The philosopher
Plato believed that man was born with a natural depravity and was basically an
untrained animal who needed society's help to structure, educate, and fulfill
his needs. On the other hand, Plato's pupil Aristotle believed that man is
initially born with goodness and virtue. The issue of man's two sides ca be
thoroughly discussed over the gothic novel of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Some critics believe that the "creature" was prone to evil from the onset, that
it was innately in his being, while others argue that the treatment the "
creature" received from humans pitted him against mankind into an evil and
revengeful state. Shakespeare, however, in his extended metaphor comparing man
to plants, holds the opinion that there is both decency and infamy in man
Shakespeare wishes to address the idea that evil can destroy a person and
overtake them if it is let in and uses his lines of Friar Laurence as an
aphorism and a warning to mankind.


“O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just...