Friar Lawrence

• two opposed kings... in man as well as herbs - good vs evil


  speaks of evil as if it were a natural quality and compares ment o plants - dispels notion that humans are any more superior than nature - many men in play have superiority complex
• the sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness - good vs evil


  'honey' has connotations of greet and sweetness which is contrasted against his friar Lawrence is talking of a bad future he forsees which is sinister
• I have her, so tortured by my art, a sleeping potion - good vs evil


  use plants (aka 'art') for Juliet and thus becomes thing he warns of at the start of the play
• holy saint Francis - religious mediator


  reminds us of his faith which furthers his role as a mediator - quintessentially catholic to desire peace and harmony
• these violent delights have violent ends - religious mediator


  speaks with narrator like tine using repetition to show apprehension - attempting to mediate conflict
• stand to be impeached and purged - folly of friar lawrence


  'purged' has religious connotations - reminds us he is religious and therefore all his actions are driven by catholic desire to do good yet his folly is that ultimately he fails
• let (his) old life be sacrificed (...) unto the rigor of the severest law - folly of friar lawrence


  willing to repent for sin - friar had best intentions and is willing to resend to prove this, yet despite good intentions his folly was that he couldn't overcome insurmountable power of fate