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Metaphors In Boiling Water

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In the short story of “Boiling Water”, three metaphors comparing life’s struggles to a potato, egg, and coffee beans are introduced. Each one of these foods was placed into a pot of boiling water. However, the outcome of the three foods was different. The potato came out soft and weak while the egg came out hard and strong. The coffee beans came out as something different. The different ways the food reacted can be compared to how us humans react to a certain situation or conflict. For example, in the Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth himself is a potato. He let his ambition for power completely conceive him, plummeting his mental stability. Macbeth’s decisions from the beginning of the story to the end contribute to his downfall into the mashed,

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