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Macbeth, Part 7: Analyzing a Production

Question 3 • English 2 Sem 2 (10013400) BCPS 2025-26

Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is alternating between instructing Seyton to ready him for battle and ordering the doctor to cure Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking. A stage direction has been added before the doctor’s last line.Macbeth. Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.[To SEYTON.] Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.Seyton, send out. [To Doctor.] Doctor, the thanes fly from me.[To SEYTON.] Come, sir, dispatch. [To Doctor.] If thou couldst, doctor, castThe water of my land, find her disease,And purge it to a sound of pristine health,I would applaud thee to the very echo,That should applaud again.—[To SEYTON.] Pull’t off, I say.—[To Doctor.] What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,Would scour these English hence? Hear’st thou of them?Doctor. Ay, my good lord; your royal preparationMakes us hear something.Macbeth. [To SEYTON.] Bring it after me.I will not be afraid of death and bane,Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.[DOCTOR looks perplexed by Macbeth’s request and stealthily sidles away.]Doctor. [Aside.] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,Profit again should hardly draw me here.

Answer
A
He is wary of Macbeth and concerned for his own safety.
B
He thinks that he should discuss Macbeth’s request with others.
C
He is confused by Macbeth and needs to think about what he has been told.
D
He feels the urgency of Macbeth’s request and wants to comply with it.
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