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In 2.3, we meet Friar Lawrence in his garden giving a long-winded soliloquy.  Why?

For our class, we'll agree that the purpose of this soliloquy is to ESTABLISH THE CHARACTER OF THE FRIAR.  Your job is to analyze what his character is like.
-- Use the point-evidence-analysis format
(Friar Lawrence is ____(descriptive adjective)_____)
-- Cite the line(s) correctly according to MLA conventions
(capitals, line break marks, line references)
-- Use details from your evidence to analyze
(go narrow, not broad)
-- incorporate a literary device in your explanation
(not as an afterthought, but because it matters)

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POINT: the Friar is SENSITIVE
EVIDENCE: "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, / Check'ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light" (2.3.1-2).
ANALYSIS: by PERSONIFYING the gray morning light as smiling on the departing night, the Friar shows he not only notices the beauty of nature, but that he empathizes with it.  He feels enough connection with the morning light to imagine its emotions.

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POINT:
Friar Lawrence is optimistic
EVIDENCE:
"O mickle is the powerful grace that lies / In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities:" (2.3.15-16).
"Nor ought so good but, strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse." (2.3.19-20).
ANALYSIS:
The fact that he describes nature using the words "powerful grace" (which means plants with powerful healing capabilities), even though he later uses imagery to highlight the fact that those plants could also be used in a negative way, as seen when he says "stumbling on abuse". This shows that Friar Lawrence can see and chooses to see the good or positive aspects of such things in life, even though to any other person they could seem to be useless or have negative connotations/uses.

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Point:
Friar Lawrence is an eccentric individual.

Evidence:
"Nor ought so good but, strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse." (2.3.19-20)

Analysis:
In this quote, Friar Lawrence reflected upon what he has been doing in his spare time, collecting herbs and plants for medicinal use. He believes that these plants and herbs are capable to be used in ways of which could be both positively and negatively. Being a friar and of a man of religion, the use of these 'alternative' medicines is not encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church. However, being the eccentric person he is, he proceeded to use these medicines.

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Point:
Friar Lawrence is a nature lover.

Evidence:
"O mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities:"
(2.3. 15-16)

Analysis:
He describes these natural objects with the words powerful grace and true qualities. The words powerful grace show that he believes that nature has powers of healing as the word grace here means healing virtue. Other than that, the words true qualities emphasis on the statement above - nature owns power.

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Point: Friar Lawrance is a reasonable, wise individual
Evidence:
"Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
virtue itself turns vice being misapplied,
and vice sometimes by action dignified."
Analysis:
Through juxtaposition where Friar Lawrence is justifying bad actions to good causes, one can conclude that he is a reasonable individual due to his ability of looking outside his moral values as a religious individual, a friar in certain conditions.

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Pont:
Friar Lawrence finds the good in bad situations
Evidence:
"And where the worser is predominant, / Full soon the canker death eats up that plant." (2.3.29-30)
Analysis:
It shows that Friar Lawrence uses metaphors to show although evil is dominant, Friar believes that good will always destroy the evil. Friar Lawrence represents the plant as evil and canker death as good, as he says "canker death eats up that plant." In this phrase, "eats up" means evil defeats good.

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Point:
Friar Lawrence is unique
Evidence:
"I must upfill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious - juiced flowers.
The earth that nature's mother is her tomb;"
Analysis:
In this lines, an osier's cage refers to a willow basket. The term "baleful" can be translated to mean "poisonous" and "precious - juiced flowers" can be also translated for something that has medicinal juices. Since poison kills, we know that he is collecting herbs that can at least harm someone but also heal someone.

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Point:
Friar Lawrence is gentle.
Proof:
"Within the infant rind of this weak flower poison hath residence, and medicine power." (2.3 23-24)
Analysis:
By personifying the flower as an "infant", it shows that Friar Lawrence cares for it as if it were to be his child. He describes it as an object that needs special care as when it continues to grow, it is able to produce medicine similar to how as an infant grows, the more abilities they are able to do. It is clear that the plant means a lot to him similarly to the amount of love he would invest into his own child.

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Point:
Friar Lawrence is open-minded. He has good intentions

Evidence:
"In one respect I'll thy assistant be: for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancour to pure love." (2.3. 90-93)

Analysis:
This passage shows that he is open minded to seeing what is a possible outcome of this marriage. It is shown through the friar saying for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancour to pure love. This passage also shows he has good intentions because he still believes that there will still be peace, the friar looked through the rough relationships between the Capulets and the Montagues. Anyone could see this, but as a friar, he is willing to overlook the religious morals and do as much as he can by agreeing to wed them.

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Point: Friar Lawrence is morally optimistic

Evidence: "O mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities. For nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give."

Analysis
It's very peculiar and ironic indeed for the Friar to appreciate the greatness of nature concomitantly as he was picking up the poisonous, harmful weeds. Any in his position might have renounced the Friar's statements and denounced the greatness of nature through all the wretched upbringings within her. Though, in contrast to that, the Friar seemed to have persistence in affirming the goodness of nature over the bad. "O mickle is the powerful grace that lies [in nature]," he affirmed.

Another point may be affirmed in that the Friar persisted not just in mere value appreciation, but also in full insistence in how the evil may be dignified as good. "And vice sometime by action dignified," he ended his soliloquy. At the next segment, he began talking about how even the poisonous herbs can be transmuted to medicines. This simply adds up to the idea on how the Friar prioritizes a certain thing's good than its evil.