FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“I’ll drain him dry as hay ____ “
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“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.”
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“O, never / Shall sun that morrow see!”
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“Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dressed yourself?”
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a storm rages, three witches appear, speaking in rhyming, paradoxical couplets: “when the battle’s lost and won” (1.1. 4); “fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1.1. 10). They agree to meet again on the heath (plain) when the battle now raging ends.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following quotations from Act I is the best example of paradox? “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater".
Detailed explanation-3: -"Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, so that from spring whence comfort seemed to come discomfort swells.” The witches’ statement is also a paradox.
Detailed explanation-4: -When the witches say “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater, ” the literary device referenced is what? Duncan’s words characterize him as a vulnerable man who cannot read beneath the surface in people. Because the play has alerted up to the fact that little is what it seems, Duncan’s weakness portends danger for him.