ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who says, “We shall not spend a large expense of time Before we reckon with your several loves And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen, Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland In such an honor named. What’s more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exiled friends abroad That fled the snares of watchful tyranny, Producing forth the cruel ministers Of this dead butcher and his fiendlike queen, Who, as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands Took off her life; this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace, We will perform in measure, time, and place. So, thanks to all at once and to each one, Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone
A
Donalbain
B
Malcolm
C
Macduff
D
Lennox
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What does Malcolm promise? His first priority will be to reward those who’ve supported him, and quickly: we shall not spend a large expense of time before we reckon with your several loves, and make us even with you.

Detailed explanation-2: -Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man! And break it to our hope. I’ll not fight with thee.

Detailed explanation-3: -Macbeth, suddenly fearful now that the prophecy has turned against him, refuses to fight him. But Macduff calls Macbeth a coward and says that Macbeth will be mocked across Scotland if he surrenders. Despite certain death, Macbeth attacks. Macduff kills him.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

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