1. Animals
-
Adriana thinks it is foolishness to submit so easily and she describes it as being as
"asses" (Act 2, scene 1, line 14)
- Luciana continues her argument with more
references to animals "The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls" (Act 2, scene 1,
lines 18-20).
2. Water
- Antipholus S. likens himself to a
drop of water that has plunged into the ocean to seek another drop (his twin brother and
mother), losing his own identity in the process. ( Act 1, scene 2, lines
35-40)
- The water image ties in with the background story of the forced
separation of Egeon's family and the two sets of twins by means of a shipwreck at sea.
The ocean is vast, and a drop of water is minuscule, heightening the sense of the
impossibility of the family's reunion and the miraculous nature of that reunion when it
finally happens.
3. Countries
Dromio S.'s
extended comparison of the body of the (as he says) fat and unattractive Nell to the
globe of the earth and the parts of her body to different countries has one purpose
only, to make the audience laugh (Act 3, scene 2, lines
111ff.).
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