3 Apparitions Macbeth

Question: What is the 1st Apparition

Answer: an armored head

“beware Macduff, Beware the thane of fife”

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Question: What is the 2nd Apparition

Answer: a bloody child

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn the power of man; for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.

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Question: What is the 3rd Apparition

Answer: a crowned child with a tree

“Macbeth will never vanquished be until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him” (Macbeth will not be defeated until this forest marches up the hill to his castle)

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Question: How is the 1st apparition played out

Answer: Macduff could be the one to kill and overthrow Macbeth. He does, and this is tied into the second apparition.

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Question: How is the 2nd apparition played out

Answer: MacDuff battles MacBeth we find out that MacDuff was not actually born in the manner typical. MacDuff was “torn” from his mother’s womb- in the form of a crude C-section. So he was not actually “born” of woman.

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Question: How is the 3rd apparition played out

Answer: MacDuff leads the armies against MacBeth, they hide in Dunsinane wood and cut trees to disguise their numbers. they then carry these trees in front of them as they march- giving the impression that the woods are moving.

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