PLEASE HELP MACBETH!
Quotation Analysis – Select the best answer for each question.
“How is’t with me, when every noise appalls me? / What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes. / Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.”
Which of the following best explains the “Neptune’s ocean” and bloody hands reference?
A)
It symbolizes Macbeth’s guilt for murdering Duncan.
B)
It symbolizes Lady Macbeth’s downward spiral into madness.
C)
It symbolizes Macbeth’s desire to murder to attain power.
D)
It symbolizes the end of Macbeth’s tyrannical reign.