warfare is evil. Just as the weed spreads so must the evil. Polonius summed up the ongoing resolution when he established that, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” Relating this quote to the garden image, one must take notice that it slips in like the last piece of the puzzle. The ecstasy, or madness, is actuality symbolic for the wild growth in the garden. While the ‘method’ is a repeating cycle which revolves from fresh to rot. Thus bringing the madness to a close.The unweeded garden imagery Shakespeare employs is that of the wild taking over the fresh, destroying it from the inside. The ‘rot’ Marcellus mentions is indeed the same thing. Looking at all the aspects mentioned above the connection is clear. Everything changes, change is inherent. In order to die one must first be born. In order to be good there must first be evil. In order to be fresh one in the end must rot. ...
