At the start of Act II, Scene 2, Lady Macbeth is worriedly wondering about the murder of Duncan without knowing when or if her husband has committed it.
How does Shakespeare's decision to depict Lady Macbeth in this way affect the play?

By having Lady Macbeth not participate in the murder, Shakespeare shows her to be a coward whose inability to take action
will later doom her husband.

By having Lady Macbeth on stage alone at this moment, Shakespeare slows the pace of the play, making audiences and
readers rethink their sympathies for her.

By showing her uncertainty and her fear, Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth a more complex and layered character while
also raising the tension in the play.

By depicting the disconnect between Lady Macbeth and her husband at this key moment, Shakespeare introduces an
important conflict within the play.

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Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt