FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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let Lady Macbeth rest for a few days
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cure Lady Macbeth
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medicate Lady Macbeth with hemlock
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analyze Lady Macbeth’s ramblingsOption 4 (optional)
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Detailed explanation-1: -As Macbeth’s anxiety grows, he commands the doctor to cure Lady Macbeth. he thinks life is a meaningless path to death. he must avenge his family members’ murders.
Detailed explanation-2: -He wants the doctor to ease her suffering, to give her something to make her oblivious to her weighty troubles.
Detailed explanation-3: -The doctor says he can cure Lady Macbeth if only Macbeth will pay him. Lady Macbeth cries out to the spirits to “unsex” her because she is distraught over the death of her youngest son. The witches told Macbeth to kill Banquo.
Detailed explanation-4: -How does the doctor respond when Macbeth orders him to cure Lady Macbeth? He gets a secret medicine from his bag. He says that he doesn’t know how to cure diseases of the blood.
Detailed explanation-5: -The only cure to Lady Macbeth’s internal illness is an antidote that she “must minister to [her]self” (V. iii. 49). Moreover, when talking to Macbeth, the doctor announces that Lady Macbeth is not physically sick as “she is troubled with thick-coming fancies” (V.