ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Lady Macbeth says she keeps all promises she makes, and says she would even kill her ____ if she had vowed to do so.
A
mother
B
husband
C
sister
D
child
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Act 2, scene 2 Remorseful? Lady Macbeth comments that she would have killed Duncan herself had he not looked like her father. She isn’t completely coldblooded. This foreshadows her future guilt.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Macbeth, outraged, calls him a coward and questions his manhood: “When you durst do it, ” she says, “then you were a man” (1.7.49). He asks her what will happen if they fail; she promises that as long as they are bold, they will be successful.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth is saying to macbeth she would rather kill her baby by bashing its brains out than break a promise like macbeth has done, although I feel that she has said this to make him feel guilty so he will carry out the promise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Even though Lady Macbeth wants Duncan dead, she will not kill him herself. The excuse she gives is that, when Duncan is asleep, he looks too much like her own father. She says, ‘Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done ‘t.

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