The correct answer for this would be the first option. Based on the given excerpt above from <span> Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death", the short story element the Poe reveals in the excerpt is the plot. The plot is an element of a story which shows the flow or sequence of events. Hope this answer helps.</span>
1. Macbeth's second and third victims are the two guards who were standing in front of Duncan's bedroom door. His plan was to kill Duncan in his sleep, but the guards were preventing him from doing that. This is why he killed the two guards with the help of his wife. The reason why he did that was so that he could have someone to blame for the death of the king - he would say that he caught them killing the king, which is why he had to have them murdered as well.
2. Lady Macbeth fainted to distract everyone's attention to her. She knew that Macbeth was weak, and that if questioned, he would admit to everything - to killing Banquo, Duncan's guards, and Duncan himself. This is why she decided to take matters into her own hands and therefore she pretended to faint. Thus everyone gathered around her to help her, and Macbeth 'fortunately' didn't get the chance to reveal their crime to everyone.
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I feel as if it its more extreme and harder to deal with as their's could be removed hers could not. She had to have more treatments and she probably wasn't as optimistic as they were able to be.
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