FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Macduff
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Lady Macbeth
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Macbeth
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Malcolm
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Detailed explanation-1: -I have given suck, and know How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Detailed explanation-2: -Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dashed the brains out (1.7) Lady Macbeth speaks these lines when she is trying to shame Macbeth for questioning their plan. She uses the image of a child to make a graphic statement about her own ambition and capacity for violence.
Detailed explanation-3: -After announcing that his son is to receive the highest honor of heir to the throne, Duncan reassured Macbeth that other honors, like stars, will shine on everyone who deserves them (line 42). Here, Macbeth picks up on that simile, saying he does not want the stars to shine on him, lest they reveal his dark desires.
Detailed explanation-4: -To describe the inertia of the two armies, the captain uses a metaphor of two drowning men, who gain no advantage by clinging together but instead “choke their art.” At this stage in the battle, it had appeared that Fortune, like a “smiling . . .
Detailed explanation-5: -Simile: Macbeth and Banquo are compared to eagles attacking sparrows and lions attacking hares in line 35.