"For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution
, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements. "Which sentence BEST paraphrases this excerpt?
A.Lacking courtesy, Macbeth disregarded the customs of the day when confronting an inferior.
B.Courageous in conflict, Macbeth ignored danger, drew his sword, and cut an enemy in half before beheading him.
C.In order to impress his wife, Macbeth drew his sword, threatened a man who had accosted her, and then brutally murdered him.
D.Uncertain when challenged by a servant, Macbeth shrank from confrontation, hiding his head behind the walls of the fort.
The given excerpt is taken from the play Macbeth Act 1, Scene 2. Here Captain is narrating the story of Macbeth's bravery to Duncan and Malcolm.
In this, he reveals the heroism of Macbeth on the battlefield and how he defeated the enemy. The Captain narrates of the story of the recent battle from which Macbeth just returned.
<u>The odds were against Macbeth as the numbers of the soldiers of Macdonwald were great and outnumbered those of Macbeth. But Macbeth in his bravery killed the soldiers and cut the body of Macdonwald into half and then beheaded him. </u>
So, the correct paraphrasing of this excerpt is option B.
Thoreau borrowed an axe and spent some days gathering things needed in framing his house. He cut and hew timber, studs, and rafters without thinking about many things but the essence of nature. He made more familiarity of the trees and enjoyed the company of nature while preparing the woods needed to build his house.
