ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Make all our trumpets speak! Give them all breath, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.What does clamorous mean?
A
quiet; calm
B
loud; noisy
C
mean; destructive
D
kind;caring
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He states, “Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death” (Macbeth 5.6.9-10). Meaning that they should sound their trumpets and being blood and death upon the castle. The Lord of course would be fighting in all of this.

Detailed explanation-2: -Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.

Detailed explanation-3: -The second point occurs in the stirring final couplet, in which the trumpets sounding the advance are referred to as “harbingers of blood and death"; a harbinger is a sign of what is to come, a precursor of Destiny or Fate.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Macduff, and Macbeth, the trumpet sound signals coming deaths. Macbeth is trapped in his castle with no way of escape.

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