Neco 2025 Literature In English Question 42

Practice objective / multiple choice question 42 from the 2025 Neco Literature In English examination.

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Question 42 NECO • 2025 • LITERATURE_IN_ENGLISH • objective

In Chinua Achebe's *Things Fall Apart* and Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, blood serves as a potent symbol. Identify the symbolic meaning of blood in each work and discuss how the authors' cultural contexts shape these meanings. Which work presents a more complex symbolism of blood?

Answer Options

A. Both works use blood solely as a symbol of physical violence, with no deeper cultural or psychological meaning.
B. Achebe's blood symbolism is more complex, reflecting individual guilt and colonial oppression, while Macbeth's blood imagery is limited to battlefield violence.
C. In Macbeth, blood symbolizes only royal lineage, whereas in Things Fall Apart it represents personal betrayal and ambition.
Correct Answer D. Macbeth presents a more complex symbolism of blood because it intertwines personal guilt, political ambition, and supernatural elements, whereas Achebe's blood symbolism is chiefly communal and ritualistic.
Correct Answer
D
Correct Option:
Macbeth presents a more complex symbolism of blood because it intertwines personal guilt, political ambition, and supernatural elements, whereas Achebe's blood symbolism is chiefly communal and ritualistic.

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