FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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If we are caught killing my father, we’ll be the ones to die
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Macbeth is a coward and probably won’t be able to kill my father or the king.
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I almost killed Duncan myself, because he looks so much like my wretched father.
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I’d have killed him myself except that he reminds me of my father.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In lines 12 and 13, she says of Duncan, ‘’Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done’t. ‘’ The plan all along has been for Macbeth to murder Duncan, but here, Lady Macbeth indicates that she would have killed Duncan herself if he had not looked so much like her father.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Macbeth is strong, ruthless, and ambitious. It is she who suggests to Macbeth that they should kill Duncan in order to make the witches’ prophecy come true. Seemingly more strong willed than Macbeth, she helps her husband recover from his fear after he kills Duncan, and helps the cover up.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Lady Macbeth, Duncan looked like her own father. For instance, in the play, she says, “Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2. 16-17). Thus, she didn’t want to kill Duncan because killing him would seem as if she killed her own father and that decision would give her nightmares.
Detailed explanation-4: -My father as he slept, I had done’t. This short speech from Lady Macbeth in Act 2, scene 2 reveals two important facts: first, that Lady Macbeth has not helped kill Duncan after all, and second, that Duncan’s resemblance to her father prevented her from killing him.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth waits in agitation for Macbeth to kill Duncan. She comments that had the sleeping Duncan not looked like her father she would have killed him herself.