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- Act V
- Act V scene viii King Malcolm
- Act V scene viii Not Born of Woman
- Act V scene viii
- Act V scene vii
- Act V scene vi
- Act V scene v Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Act V scene v Lady Macbeth's death
- Act V scene v
- Act V scene iv
- Act V scene iii
- Act V scene ii
- Act V scene i Lady Macbeth
- Act V scene i sleepwalking
- Act IV scene iii Macduff's family
- Act IV scene iii power of healing
- Act IV Macduff and Malcolm
- Act IV scene ii
- Act IV scene i Macduff's family
- Act IV scene i Macbeth and the witches
- Act III scene vi
- Act III scene v atmosphere
- Act III scene iv the relationship
- Act III scene ii the banquet
- Act III scene iii the murder
- Act III scene ii changes in character
- Act III scene i the murder plot
- Act III scene i the witches and Macbeth
- Act III scen i Banquo
- Act II Dirty Hands
- Act II Characterization
- Act II Elizabethan Audience
- Act II Figurative Language
- Act II scene iv Nature
- Act II Scene iv the suspects
- Act II scene iii Malcolm and Donalbain
- Act II scene iii Lady Macbeth
- Act II scene iii killing the others
- Act II scene iii the Porter
- Act II scene ii reactions to the murder
- Macbeth Act II scene ii voices
- Act II scene ii the murder
- Act II scene ii hallucinations
- Act Scene i Reaction to Prophecy
- Act I Ambition
- Act I the plan
- Act I the language
- Act I the assassination
- Act I Lady Macbeth
- Act I King Duncan and Macbeth
- Act I the prophecy
- Act I the three weird sisters
- Act I scene i impressions
- Act I Scene i
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The relationship of this scene to the prophecies through the Apparitions is very clear. Shakespeare is careful to make Lord Menteith say the name of the woods clearly, "The wood of Birnam" (5, 4, 3). [I had to use the No Fear Shakespeare version to do the citation]. Then Malcolm answers, "Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear 't before him. Thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host and make discovery / Err in report of us" (5, 4, 4-7). I suppose that at this moment the audience would say, "Oh! That is how the woods move. Poor Macbeth, he was fooled by the witches..." because one of the prophecies was that Macbeth would not fall until Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane Hill.
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