<span>The following are the lines 16–18 (Act 2, scene 1), in which Macbeth tells Banquo that he and his wife couldn’t entertain the king as they would have liked. </span> Being unprepared,
Our will became the servant to defect,
Which else should free have wrought
= these lines are ironic because the wife of Baquo liked to entertain the king but she can't because she is not prepared. Her will to entertain may cause a mistake because she was not prepared what should be carefully done.
A. Short words and hard consonants create a sense of angry uncertainty. The repetition of the phrase causes the reader to consider the rhetorical question in the context of the text.
