Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune"
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The idea
Fortune is given weapons, which is personification in the sense unit seven defined. Outrageous carries its older force of excessive and violent rather than merely shocking. Suffering is redescribed as being under fire, which prepares the military image that follows.
In practice
Fortune, armed and firing.
Where people slip
Outrageous means violent here.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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