ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The apparition of the bloody child represents
A
Fleance.
B
Macbeth’s guilty conscience.
C
Macduff at birth.
D
Macbeth’s son who died in infancy.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -’ According to the apparition, Macbeth can’t be killed by anyone born from a woman. After this last pronouncement, Macbeth believes he has nothing to fear from Macduff and is home free.

Detailed explanation-2: -The second apparition, the bloody child, represents Macduff. He’s bloody because, as a baby, he was ripped from his mother’s womb. So while assuring Macbeth that none of woman born can harm him, the witches show him Macduff, was was “not of woman born” and will defeat him.

Detailed explanation-3: -the bloody child how Macbeth is soaked with the blood of all the innocent people he has killed. the crowned child and tree symbolises his defeat. the trees coming to dunsinane, Banquo’s heirs inheriting the throne, the tree of continued life.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response they summon for him three apparitions: an armed head, a bloody child, and finally a child crowned, with a tree in his hand. These apparitions instruct Macbeth to beware Macduff but reassure him that no man born of woman can harm him and that he will not be overthrown until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane.

Detailed explanation-5: -Macduff defeats Macbeth Macbeth claims that he cannot be defeated because of the witches’ prophecy but Macduff then reveals that he was born by Caesarean birth.

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