FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A traitor
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A cousin
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A hunter
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A bird
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lady Macbeth affectionately calls her son a “poor bird”-one who is too naive to fear the dangers in life. He jokingly responds that he has nothing to fear since they don’t set traps for poor scrawny birds-just rich fat ones.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Macbeth has just heard an owl shriek. According to medieval folklore, this foretold an imminent death. She compares the owl to a bellman, the town crier who went about town ringing a bell and making announcements. She describes the bellman as “fatal” because the crier often announced deaths.
Detailed explanation-3: -The raven is a bird of ill omen, and Lady Macbeth means that the raven is hoarse from saying again and again that King Duncan must die.
Detailed explanation-4: -The bird symbolizes a pitiful, innocent, harmless creature, which is the son. His protector abandoned his child and now this evil being is going to kill him. Later right before he is killed, the son is referred to as an egg. Illustrating his son as even more innocent and defenseless.
Detailed explanation-5: -However, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, birds represent chaos, the moral and physical destruction of Shakespeare’s characters. As the play progresses and the kingdom crumbles, Shakespeare presents birds alongside the destruction, thus transforming such elegant creatures into symbols of doom.