ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Identify the speaker of the following lines:"Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.”
A
Macduff
B
Macbeth
C
Lady Macbeth
D
Donalbain
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lady Macbeth has placed daggers in the hands of the sleeping chamberlains to implicate them in Duncan’s death, as planned. In lines 12 and 13, she says of Duncan, ‘’Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done’t.

Detailed explanation-2: -’ This shows that Macbeth is so guilty that he will never be able to sleep again. He has murdered the king while he is sleeping, which is a deceitful thing to do especially as the king is in line to God.

Detailed explanation-3: -Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!

Detailed explanation-4: -Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast’.

Detailed explanation-5: -She tells her son that his father is dead. Macduff’s son tells his mother he will live, “as birds do/…/With what I get, I mean; and so do they” (37-49).

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