What metaphors are used in The Marquise of O, and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist?

Pride is metaphorically compared to a weapon.

"She realized the impossibility of ever convincing her family of her innocence, understood that, if she were not to go under, she must come to terms with the fact - and only a few days had elapsed after her arrival in V**, when her grief gave way to a heroic resolve to arm herself with pride against the slings of fortune."