Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The sergeant is reporting to Duncan about the rebel attack.
Sergeant. As whence the sun ’gins his reflection
[Shipwrecking] storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem’d to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm’d
Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.
Duncan. Dismay’d not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
Sergeant. Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
What mood does the simile "As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion” help create?
A. astonished
B. confident
C. confused
D. hopeless