Romeo and Juliet: Act 2

During the Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence agrees do marry Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo and Juliet decides to get married, Romeo visits Friar Lawrence, his counselor, who is also a priest, to ask him if he can marry them. Friar Lawrence accepts his request after making sure that he truly loves her. However, just before Romeo came, Friar Lawrence was picking up plants, saying that any types of plants can be very helpful or deadly depending on their use. This scene is quite interesting because the scene seems pointless and boring, but in fact, the scene could be one of the biggest foreshadow of the whole story.
Like everybody knows, Romeo and Juliet end up dying at the end of the play. When the Friar was talking about the plants, the plants could have two meanings: love, and the actual plants (poison). Romeo is in "true" love with Juliet, and vise versa, however, these two lovers' love, even though it is naturally pure and good, it leads the two couples to death. Also, although I am not hundred percent sure, Juliet gets poison to fake death so she and Romeo can escape. The poison, which possibly is made of some type of plant, was going to be the only key of the continuance of Romeo and Juliet's love. However, just by a little misunderstanding of Romeo, they end up actually drinking the poison and die. Just like Friar Lawrence said, plants, whether they mean love or poison or plants themselves, could be deadly.

Friar Lawrence's plant scene is quite short and I probably won't do anything in that moment (besides asking what kinds of plants they are, just for no reason). However, I can compare the plants' usage to my ordinary life. For example, I love eggs. Eggs are known as one of the healthiest kinds of food, but too much ingestion of egg could be dangerous to your health. Like that, there are lots of things that are naturally good, but that can be bad. It'd be the best way to use things wisely so we don't cause any problems.