Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Ross is describing the situation in Scotland to Macduff.Macduff. Stands Scotland where it did?Ross. Alas! poor country!Almost afraid to know itself. It cannotBe call’d our mother, but our grave; where nothing,But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the airAre made, not mark’d; where violent sorrow seemsA modern ecstasy; the dead man’s knellIs there scarce ask’d for who; and good men’s livesExpire before the flowers in their caps,Dying or ere they sicken.