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Recurring Themes and Images (Jonathan) Plants __Places It's used__

Friar Lawrence talks about plants in the beginning of Romeo and Juliet and talks about a plant that gives a dillusion of death and then that plant is used later on to give Juliet and image of death so she can get away and be with Romeo. (Jason Fromal) Friar Lawrence explains that plants can be used for good and bad just depending on how plants are used. They can be good and make food delicious, making them all the better with herbs and such. Plants can alo be used to kill people if used as a poison or used in too big of proportions. (Jonathan)

Plants are an important image in Romeo and Juliet. They are brought up by Friar Lawrence a lot to begin with, and they actually sort of tie into the opposites theme with another image: fire. Fire destroys, and brings things down. Plants grow and help to create more nature and life. They are significant in that they show how R&J's marriage grows up and up, but then eventually dies away like all plants do someday.  Recurring Themes and Images (Jonathan)