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Similes in Macbeth
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The End
"For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-- disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valor's minion carved out his passage."
Act 1, Scene 2
Captain
"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures."
Act 2, Scene 2
Lady Macbeth
Haley
Act 1, Scene 2
Captain
Lady Macbeth is chiding Macbeth for being afraid to go finish his evil deed
"And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, showed like a rebel's whore."
Luck was on Macdonwald's side, but Macbeth still defeated him
Courtney
Haley
Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind
Simile
Act 2, Scene 4
Ross
Duncan's horses were misbehaving
Courtney
A simile is a comparison that uses like or as.
Jordan
As two spent swimmers do cling together and choke their art
Jordan
The captain is comparing the armies to tired swimmers still trying to swim.
Act 1, Scene 2
Captain
Jordan
Macbeth is saying that pity is a weakness that blocks ambition
And pity, like a naked newborn babe
Act 1, Scene 7
Macbeth