- Explain lines 21-22” “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied/And vice sometime by action dignified”?
Sometimes good intentions can have a negative outcome when they’re not applied correctly or they don’t turn out the way they were planned just like Friar Lawrance tried to help Romeo and Juiet by giving Juliet the sleeping potion but Romeo and Juliet ended up dead because of a misunderstanding, but bad intentions can be sometimes be honered by understanding people because of the reason to why they were made.
- When Friar Lawrence sees Romeo, what comment does Friar Lawrence make about seeing Romeo so early in the morning?
Friar Lawrence assumes that something is wrong with Romeo because he sees him so early and realizes that he has most likely been up all night which would only happen if something was wrong
- What does Friar Lawrence mean when he says to Romeo “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes”?
Friar Lawrence tries to tell Romeo that when a young man is in love you will see it in his eyes and not his heart, because sometimes you make yourself believe that you’re in love with someone even when you’re not, but you will know if the love is true by how a young man looks at the woman he loves, and how his eyes light up when they see her.
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