FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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She believes Macbeth must do the murder
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The shriek of an owl frightened her
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Duncan reminds her of her father
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She fears the king’s guards
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Even though Lady Macbeth wants Duncan dead, she will not kill him herself. The excuse she gives is that, when Duncan is asleep, he looks too much like her own father. She says, ‘Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done ‘t.
Detailed explanation-3: -Macbeth declares that he no longer intends to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth, outraged, calls him a coward and questions his manhood: “When you durst do it, ” she says, “then you were a man” (1.7.49).
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.