ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Finish the quote from Macbeth’s soliloquy about the dagger:"Nature seems ____ “
A
Sleepy
B
Drunk
C
Dead
D
Destroyed
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Now o’er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain’d sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate’s offerings, and wither’d murder, Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nature seems dead refers to the effect of night and darkness, the silence of the night; metaphorically, Macbeth might also be referring to human nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Detailed explanation-4: -Macbeth Glossary-one halfworld nature seems dead. Because it is night, half of the world is in darkness and everything seems dead.

Detailed explanation-5: -After Banquo has gone to bed, Macbeth hallucinates, seeing a bloody dagger in the air, and then he tells himself that it is the time of night for such a hallucination: “Now o’er the one half-world / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain’d sleep” (2.1. 49-51).

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