ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What unique power does Kind Edward have?
A
He can cure the sick and see the future.
B
He can hear the witches’ prophecies when they speak to Macbeth.
C
He can turn back time to stop the killing of King Duncan.
D
He is actually Hecate and can control the witches.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He can cure the sick and see the future. He can hear the witches’ prophecies when they speak to Macbeth . He can turn back time to stop the killing of King Duncan .

Detailed explanation-2: -For this reason, the disease was called “the king’s evil, ” the evil the king had the power to heal. Edward the Confessor, who ruled from 1042 to 1066, was the first English king to cure the king’s evil with his touch. He anointed a sick woman’s throat with water and made the sign of the cross above it.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to legend, Edward had been able to cure scrofula, or the King’s Evil, a glandular inflammation, simply by touching the diseased patient.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Britain, reference to the monarch as having divine power in “the royal touch” dates to the 11th century, when it was believed that Edward the Confessor, last of the Anglo-Saxon kings, possessed powers to heal the sick through some form of laying on of hands.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ability to heal people with scrofula by his touch. Edward the Confessor supposedly had this power which succeeds in royalty. Because James I is related to Edward, this reference was used as flattery.

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