FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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his lust for wealth.
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the support of the witches.
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his wife’s encouragement.
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the advice of Banquo.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout Act I of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth’s plans and actions seem to be motivated most of all by his wife’s encouragement. Option C is correct. Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to murder King Duncan so that he can become king. Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Detailed explanation-2: -Macbeth is motivated by greed, power, ambition, and his wife. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s manhood and calls him a coward.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth: The witches may have planted the initial seed in Macbeth’s mind to act on his ambition, but his wife is the one who pushes him to murder. Lady Macbeth’s persistence encourages Macbeth to put aside his guilt and kill Duncan, telling him to focus on his ambition, not his conscience.
Detailed explanation-4: -She convinces Macbeth to kill the king so that he will become king, and she will become queen. Her primary motivation is herself; she enjoys her husband’s company, but like him, she is willing to sacrifice everything and everyone in order to attain more power.
Detailed explanation-5: -Then she tells him her plan: while Duncan sleeps, she will give his chamberlains wine to make them drunk, and then she and Macbeth can slip in and murder Duncan. They will smear the blood of Duncan on the sleeping chamberlains to cast the guilt upon them.