Question

Why Lady Macbeth Calls Macbeth as a coward ?

• A. he refuses to fight in battles
• B. he has second thoughts about killing King Duncan:
• C. he plans to flee after King Duncan's arrival
• D. he doubts Lady Macbeth's loyalty

Answer 1

Answer:

B. he has second thoughts about killing King Duncan:

• He considers the reasons why he ought not to kill Duncan: Macbeth is Duncan’s kinsman, subject, and host; moreover, the king is universally admired as a virtuous ruler.

• Macbeth notes that these circumstances offer him nothing that he can use to motivate himself.

• He faces the fact that there is no reason to kill the king other than his own ambition,which he realizes is an unreliable guide.

• Lady Macbeth enters and tells her husband that the king has dined and that he has been asking for Macbeth. Macbeth declares that he no longer intends to kill Duncan.

• Lady Macbeth, outraged, calls him a coward and questions his manhood: “When you durst do it,” she says, “then you were a man”