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Key Examples in All's Well that Ends Well
Act 2, Scene 3
Explanation and Analysis—Honor:
The King utilizes metaphor, personification, and employs some Elizabethan English dialect while discussing the concept of honor and reproaching Bertram for dismissing Helen:
She is young, wise, fair [...]
And these breed honor.
That is honor’s scorn
Which challenges itself as honor’s born
And is not like the sire.
Honors thrive
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers. The mere word’s a slave
Debauched on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb
Of honored bones indeed.
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