FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Macduff’s mother was royal, not a common woman
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Macduff is the son of Hecate, the queen witch, who is not a human woman
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Macduff was born by Caesarian section, not from natural birth
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The prophecy was a lie.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Macduff’s ability to kill Macbeth suggests that his mother was irrelevant and he was born only to his father and was not “woman born". Thus ignoring her role in his birth. The quote suggests that Macbeth is better than anyone raised by a woman and cannot be harmed by those with mothers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Her explanation hinges on the fact that since in those days a woman could not survive a c-section, Macduff’s mother would have been already deceased, and the baby cut out of her belly before its time to save its life. In other words he was born not from a woman, but from a corpse. I’m scared to give birth naturally.
Detailed explanation-3: -DAVINA: Macduff is saying that he wasn’t born through the normal birthing process. Instead, his mother’s abdomen was cut open and he was removed directly from the womb, presumably because his mother was dying.
Detailed explanation-4: -Macduff is finally able to kill Macbeth as he was, as the witches’ prophecy stated, “from his mother’s womb untimely ripped”.
Detailed explanation-5: -At first, Macbeth isn’t too keen on the idea of killing Macduff. After all, he did just have his family murdered. But Macduff won’t let him get off that easily. Still, Macbeth tells him that there’s no point in Macduff trying to kill him, because Macbeth can’t be harmed by anyone born of a woman.