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Using these lines from Act II, explain the relationship between Macbeth's words and the words of Duncan's sons. You must cite from and explain these lines in your response. (25 points)

Macbeth

Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant
There's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

Malcolm

What will you do? Let's not consort with them:
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.

Donalbain.

To Ireland, I; our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody.

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Step-by-step explanation:

saying about death and life

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