Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is in his castle, waiting to be surrounded by the enemy army. He suddenly hears women crying, and his servant Seyton goes to investigate.Macbeth. I have almost forgot the taste of fears;The time has been, my senses would have cool’dTo hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hairWould at a dismal treatise rouse and stirAs life were in’t: I have supp’d full with horrors;Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughtsCannot once start me.
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by describing Macbeth’s fears of his bad dreamsB
by describing all the violence that Macbeth has forgottenC
by showing how afraid of the world Macbeth has becomeD
by showing that Macbeth has become numb to violence