"Why" is the question to ask to help identify the reason for an event that happens in a historical text.
If you ask "why" an event happened, you will get to better understand the reasoning around it, what prompted the event, and some of the personal/political emotions or decisions that surrounded the event.
Because theseus believed he could reenact the play part by part
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable while a simile is <span>a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Examples for Metaphor; "Franklin has a heart of gold." or "I'm gonna hit the hay." Examples for Simile; "He is as quiet as a mouse." or "He eats like a pig."</span>