Romeo And Juliet: Shakespeare's Metaphor Of Comparing Man To Plants

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of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson, where Dr. Jekyll is innately pure and kind but because he tries to
hide the malicious side of his being, it eventually overcomes him completely.
Shakespeare wishes to address the idea that evil can destroy a person and
overtake them if it is let in and uses his lines of Friar Laurence as an
aphorism and a warning to mankind.
The following lines from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet fully portray
the author's view of a split of innocence and corruption in man, and the thought
that evil is likely and able to destroy man from the inside out.

Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

Translated, these lines can be interpreted as follows:

Within the bud of this small flower
Poison lives and medicine has potential power.
In man, like in plants, ...

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