“He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that his body was taut, all of it: also made of steel; that it only worked because it was at an intolerable tension, and that it was our sensation of that tension which had exhausted us, which could no longer be borne. He was the wrong spring which had been put into our machine, that had made Claude ill, George foolish, Boris an anxiety.” Metaphor1932CharacterisationSeveral OccasionsScylla And Charybdis Book:The Complete Stories Source: The Complete Stories
“Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.” MarriageComing Of AgeShakespeareMidsummer Nights DreamScylla And CharybdisHermia Book:Coming of Age in Shakespeare Source: Coming of Age in Shakespeare