Read the excerpt and then answer the question that follows.

". . better be with the dead,
whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace,
than on the torture of the mind to lie
in restless ecstasy."

which sentence best paraphrases the excerpt?

a.) macbeth believes that killing others has given them peace.

b.) macbeth would rather be dead than alive with the guilt he is feeling.

c.) macbeth is obsessed with the prophesy that banquo's heirs will inherit the throne.

d.) macbeth is plotting more murders to cover up for those he has already committed.