Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep.

Now o’er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain’d sleep.

– William Shakespeare

Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1. Personification in used four times in this passage from Macbeth’s soliloquy, as he prepares to kill Duncan. He acknowledges that half the world is asleep and having nightmares, setting the tone for the evil act that he about to commit.

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