ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What IS NOT part of the Duncan murder plot?
A
Get the guards drunk.
B
Put the bloody daggers back on the guards.
C
Wait until everyone has gone to bed.
D
Have Lady Macbeth kill Duncan.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The answer is in Act 2, scene 2. While waiting for Macbeth to come out of Duncan’s chamber, Lady Macbeth states, “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ‘t.” Lady Macbeth sees a resemblance between Duncan and her father, which causes her to hesitate in killing Duncan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trying to psych her husband up for some regicide, she tells him he’s not much of a man if he can’t find the courage to kill the king. Then she hatches a plan: they’ll wait until Duncan’s asleep, get his servants drunk, kill the king in his bed, and blame it on the servants.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill King Duncan by preying on his sense of manhood and courage. When Macbeth reveals that he has had a change of heart and is no longer willing to kill King Duncan, Lady Macbeth becomes enraged.

Detailed explanation-5: -Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth presents the murder of King Duncan-the key event that propels Macbeth on to greatness as well as doom. In this scene, the Macbeths meet in their castle at night, immediately after Macbeth has stabbed the sleeping Duncan to death.

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