ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who said it?"There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
A
Donalbain
B
Lady Macbeth
C
Ross
D
Macbeth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare-“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.”–Donalbain from “Macbeth” (Act II, Scene III). | Facebook.

Detailed explanation-2: -’ Donalbain (Act II, Sc. III). In this line, Donalbain is saying that he and his brother Malcolm are not safe if they stay where they are. That the men who smile at them are actually concealing daggers, wanting their blood.

Detailed explanation-3: -Daniel Mays as Macbeth: ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’

Detailed explanation-4: -Macduff tells them that rumor has it Malcolm and Donalbain were the ones who hired the servants to kill Duncan. Everyone suspects them because they fled Scotland so quickly after the king died.

Detailed explanation-5: -What does Macbeth suggest about Malcolm and Donalbain a.k.a. “the bloody cousins"? He suggests they were the ones who actually murdered King Duncan. “We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed/ In England and in Ireland, not confessing/ Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers/ With strange invention.

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