Notes to Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 2, line 21: "the torture"


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Act 3, Scene 2, line 21.
When Macbeth says, "Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, / Than on the torture of the mind to lie / In restless ecstasy," the context makes it clear that by "the torture" he means the torture device known as "the rack."



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