Literature 1-30c—Similes from The Comedy of Errors
Similes from The Comedy of Errors
Act 2, Scene 1
Lines 87-90
Am I so round with you as you with me,
That like a football you do spurn me thus?
You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither.
If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.
Dromio—E has just returned from trying to convince Antipholus—S to come home for
dinner. Of course, Antipholus—S doesn’t come because he knows he isn’t married.
Dromio has returned home to Adriana’s anger. Dromio compares the treatment he is
receiving of being sent back and forth between two people who don’t believe him
and beat him to being kicked like a football.
Act 2, Scene 2
Lines 136-140 For know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall
A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
And take unmingled thence that drop again
Without addition or diminishing,
As take from me thyself and not me too.
Adriana tells Antipholus—S that it would be as hard to separate her from her husband
as it would be to put a drop of water in the ocean and lift that exact drop out again.
Act 1, Scene 2
Lines 35-36
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop.
Egeon tells the Duke that his quest to find his son is like one drop of water in the ocean
trying to find another specific drop in the ocean—pretty much impossible.
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