MACBETH        If we should fail—LADY MACBETH       We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking placeAnd we’ll not fail.* (1.7.68-71)Which literary device is employed here and what is its importance?Elimination ToolSelect one answerAThis is an example of irony in the play. Lady Macbeth is attacking Macbeth's 'manliness' over his guilt and is attempting to convince him that there is no way that anything will go wrong if he plucks up the courage. However, in the end, Lady Macbeth cannot take the guilt and goes mad.BThis is an example of foreshadowing. Macbeth worries that they will fail and Lady Macbeth assures him that they will not, so long as he is courageous. When they do try to go through with the plan, just as Macbeth foreshadows here, they do fail.CThis is an example of imagery. Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth's response to create an image of how they will not fail. It is this that allows Macbeth to carry out what she is describing and kill Duncan.DThis is an example of symbolism. Lady Macbeth's reference to the "sticking place" is symbolic of the guilt that she will experience once they murder Duncan.

Quote Lady Macbeth’s reaction.

Macbeth is a 1606 play by William Shakespeare. In the play, the character of Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to kill the king despite his fears. Though she calls her husband cowardly for his reluctance to commit murder, she is hiding her own cowardice by making him to do the killing, as is evident when she -------Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from Macbeth to illustrate the claim? tells her husband, “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”eliminatesays to herself, “Had [the king] not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.”eliminateannounces about herself, “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold, / What hath quenched them hath given me fire.”eliminatetalks to herself in her sleep, saying, “Out, damned spot; out, I say…Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

What is Lady Macbeth's plan

How does Lady Macbeth try to calm her husband?Why does she dismiss the quests?What is Macbeth determined to do in order to attain his goal of security?

What is Shakespeare trying to warn us about in Macbeth?