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Definition of Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like" or "as," but can also... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often use the connecting words "like... read full definition
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, similes most often... read full definition
Act 1, Scene 2
Explanation and Analysis—Cupid:
In the second scene of Act 1, Blunt and Frederick make fun of Belvile for being in love with Florinda—and in particular for letting a woman have so much control over his life and wellbeing. Alluding to the Roman god Cupid, Blunt compares his and Frederick's feelings for women to Belvile's feelings for Florinda:
[...] our Cupids are like the cooks of the camp, they can roast or boil a woman, but they have none of the fine tricks to set ’em off, no hogoes to make the sauce pleasant and the stomach sharp.
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Act 2, Scene 1
Explanation and Analysis—Cupid:
In the second scene of Act 1, Blunt and Frederick make fun of Belvile for being in love with Florinda—and in particular for letting a woman have so much control over his life and wellbeing. Alluding to the Roman god Cupid, Blunt compares his and Frederick's feelings for women to Belvile's feelings for Florinda:
Unlock with LitCharts A+[...] our Cupids are like the cooks of the camp, they can roast or boil a woman, but they have none of the fine tricks to set ’em off, no hogoes to make the sauce pleasant and the stomach sharp.
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Act 4, Scene 3
Explanation and Analysis:
The fourth scene of Act 4 opens to Blunt sitting alone in a room in nothing but "his shirt and drawers." In a rancorous soliloquy, he expresses bitterness over Lucetta's successful scheme and preemptive humiliation over the other cavaliers making fun of him when they discover how his love affair turned out. He uses a simile to sum up what Lucetta has done to him:
Unlock with LitCharts A+[...] she has made me as faithless as a physician, as uncharitable as a churchman, and as ill-natured as a poet.
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