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Essay / Macbeth Plot Summary - 1546
When he finally arrives at them, he demands to know more future prophecies from them. He is thirsty to know more about his destiny and his future. The first prophecy is the disembodied head of a warrior who appears to warn Macbeth of bloody vengeance at the hands of Macduff. The second is a child covered in blood who comforts Macbeth by telling him that he cannot be killed by any man “born of woman”. The third is a child wearing a crown, who promises that Macbeth cannot lose in battle until Birnam Wood physically moves to his fortress of Dunsinane. Hearing these prophecies, Macbeth now has something to get rid of. Something that will push him further into his ruthless and cold reign. Causing Macbeth to further desire the defeat of the Macduff family. Commentary: 2nd appearance / Macbeth “Be bloody, bold and resolute: laugh to scorn the power of man; for none of the women born will harm Macbeth. » “So long live Macduff; what need I fear from you? But yet I will make doubly sure, and make a pledge of fate: thou shalt not live, that I may tell a pale-hearted fear that she lies, and sleep through the thunder. These few lies spoken specifically for the part where Macbeth states “..what need I fear from you?” A reading that evokes how one might expect even more ruthless rule from Macbeth. When you have no one to fear, then why worry about being in the moral code or a good ethnicity?