Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect;Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,As broad and general as the casing air:But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound inTo saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo ’s safe?First Murderer. Ay, my good lord; safe in a ditch he bides,With twenty trenched gashes on his head;The least a death to nature.
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Banquo has attacked them.D
Banquo has gone into hiding.The First Murderer says Banquo is “safe in a ditch” with twenty wounds on his head, and that even the smallest wound would be fatal. This makes clear that Banquo has been killed, so the correct choice is “Banquo has been slain.”
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