Monday, February 22, 2010
Friar's monologue paragraph
Shakespeare uses the Friar’s monologue to show that good and evil coexist. In lines 21 and 22 the Friar says Virtue if self turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. This means that too much good can become bad. This also says that too much of a bad thing can also be a good thing. In line 23 the Friar says Poison hath residence and medicine power. This means that poison can be an extremely bad thing, but with the right dosage it can be helpful. I think he says this because he gave the potion to Juliet in order to make her sick but not to make her die. When doctors prescribe antibiotics, the antibiotics are actually poison used to kill the disease you have. In line 28 the Friar says In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. He is saying that there is good in evil in every human being as well as in plants. This means that the person has to choose which one he wants to be.
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Nice. Good structure. Good CM. I want to see transitions between your chunks so that it is clear when you are moving from one example to the next.
ReplyDeleteAlso, chunk 1 has the weakest CM. You simply state what the line says but not how it says it. You could explain what virtue and vice are and perhaps how something virtuous, like honesty or loyalty, can become bad. That too much good can become bad is not an obvious phenomenon in life, so your CM could explain it to the reader a little more thoroughly.