FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a traitor
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a liar
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a violent person
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -As though he knows exactly what is on his mother’s mind, the boy asks, “Was my father a traitor, mother?” (4.2. 44). Continuing to joke with her son as she has before, Lady Macduff says that yes, her husband was a traitor.
Detailed explanation-2: -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).
Detailed explanation-3: -Ross cannot convince her that her husband has acted in wisdom, and so he leaves. Lady Macduff tells her son that his father is dead, but the boy argues that if his father were dead, she would be weeping. She keeps insisting that his father is dead because he is a traitor.
Detailed explanation-4: -He doesn’t believe her and says that if Macduff were really dead, she’d “weep” for him, and if she didn’t then it would “be a good sign that I [the boy] should quickly have a new father."
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macduff thinks Macduff is a traitor to his family and has abandoned themIn scene 3, Malcolm deliberately lies to Macduff.