FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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He is not ruthless enough.
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He is too loyal to King Duncan.
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He lacks sufficient ambition.
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He does not have the wit to devise a workable plan.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth has a poor chance of achieving power? He is not ruthless enough.
Detailed explanation-2: -1.5. Lady Macbeth reads her husband’s letter about his meeting with the witches. She fears that Macbeth lacks the ruthlessness he needs to kill Duncan and fulfill the witches’ prophecy.
Detailed explanation-3: -She can only be Queen if he becomes King so when he hesitates she displays enough ambition for both of them. Once she has worked out a plan, nothing will turn her from that course until her ambition is fulfilled. Lady Macbeth’s determination to succeed is clear here.
Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike Macbeth, who deliberates over whether or not to kill Duncan and who wrestles with loyalty to his king, Lady Macbeth is single-minded in her lust for power. She has no loyalty to any cause beyond her own ambition, and is willing to manipulate her husband to achieve what she wants.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth: The witches may have planted the initial seed in Macbeth’s mind to act on his ambition, but his wife is the one who pushes him to murder. Lady Macbeth’s persistence encourages Macbeth to put aside his guilt and kill Duncan, telling him to focus on his ambition, not his conscience.