Macduff's Apparition In Macbeth

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Macbeth meets with the Witches, who show Macbeth an apparition of an armed head which tells him "Beware Macduff" and a bloody child that says, "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth". However, Macbeth does not believe the apparition that Macduff will kill him because he believes that Macduff was "woman born". Believing that Macduff will not be the one to kill him, Macbeth ends up on the battlefield, face-to-face with Macduff who proclaims he was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd." I think Shakespeare uses this cause and effect method to tell the audience that Macbeth's ambitious nature is the reason for his death because Macbeth is so determined to become king he will ignore the apparition in support for what he thinks is true.

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