For starters, Shakespeare's elaborate use of figurative language is a major reason why his writing is still taught centuries after his death. He used this language a lot to convey a sense of emotion and depth in what his characters say. In some cases, Shakespeare will use figurative language to foreshadow future events in the play. For example, Friar Laurence is talking to Romeo about the secret marriage he was asked to make when he states, "These violent pleasures have violent ends. And in their triumph they die, like fire and dust." In this case, Friar is essentially reminding the audience that forbidden lovers will die no matter how much they try to fix the situation. Shakespeare also uses figurative language to indicate a fairly clear time period in which the actions take place. When Benvolio speaks to the Montagues about the last time he saw Romeo, he says, "An hour before the beloved sun / Searched the golden east window." Shakespeare could have easily used simplistic language to explain the time of day the actions were taking place, but instead he personified the sun in a very pure and beautiful way. Subsequently, Shakespeare uses a variety of poetic writing styles within his work. In most of the play, most of the characters speak in blank verse, or simply in unrhymed iambic pentameter. An exception would be minor characters such as servants and commoners, who do not speak in iambic pentameter but instead in professional. Shakespeare probably made them speak this way to show the nobility and intelligence of other primary characters. In one particular scene, Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about how she should get married to Paris soon, and says, "This precise...... middle of paper... and problems with their plans to escape death, and if a piece of Shakespeare's work were eliminated, the whole chain of events would be completely different. Shakespeare made every character an antagonist in this play, because every main character did something that caused the death of Romeo and Juliet say that too. could be protagonists, considering that the death of these two lovers has "buried their parents' conflict", ending the hated feud between the Capulets and the Montagues causes even the most intelligent literary professors in the world to rate it a complicated job, and there are some questions that still remain unanswered. The only clues we have to understand these literary mysteries are hidden in Shakespeare's writings, and even then some of these questions depend only on the writer himself, William Shakespeare...