Favorite Soliloquy

Act Two Scene 3 lines 1-30, Friar's Soliloquy means:  

The smiling morning is replacing the frowning night. Darkness is stumbling out of the sun’s path like a drunk man. Now, before the sun comes up and burns away the dew, I have to fill this basket of mine with poisonous weeds and medicinal flowers. The Earth is nature’s mother and also nature’s tomb. Plants are born out of the Earth, and they are buried in the Earth when they die. From the Earth’s womb, many different sorts of plants and animals come forth, and the Earth provides her children with many excellent forms of nourishment. Everything nature creates has some special property, and each one is different. Herbs, plants, and stones possess great power. There is nothing on Earth that is so evil that it does not provide the earth with some special quality. And there is nothing that does not turn bad if it’s put to the wrong use and abused. Virtue turns to vice if it’s misused. Vice sometimes becomes virtue through the right activity. 
(From: Spark notes)

  

 The significance of this soliloquy is that it explains the main parts of the play and kind of sums it up. The Friar's speech is like a long series of contrasts between good and bad. Which is more Yin-Yang then heaven and hell, which is not really religious. I think that he is saying, sometimes good things turn into bad things if you use it improperly. And sometimes bad things become good things through the right choices you make. Also, I think Shakespeare is hinting in the soliloquy to the Friar that he is not what he is supposed to be. And I think that is why Shakespeare chose the Friar to say this soliloquy.

I chose this soliloquy because it kinds of explains the play. And I thought it would help me understand the play better. I liked how Shakespeare used one of his characters to summarize the play. Even if he wrote it in a way we wouldn't understand or at least I wouldn't understand. I liked how Friar said how you are born from mother earth and when you die you go back there. I think what Shakespeare was trying to say in that line was that what goes around comes around. And if you do good you get good. If you do bad you get bad. It's the circle of life.