FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Lennox
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Macbeth
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Macduff
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Seyton
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Detailed explanation-1: -Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. Macbeth’s last hope is destroyed by this revelation. Because Macduff’s mother died, he was delivered by the equivalent of a caesarean section.
Detailed explanation-2: -Destroying Macbeth’s last hope, Macduff replies, “Despair thy charm / And let the angel whom thou still hast served / Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d” (5.8. 16-19).
Detailed explanation-3: -Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.
Detailed explanation-4: -I’ll not fight with thee. MACDUFF Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o’ th’ time. “Here may you see the tyrant.”
Detailed explanation-5: -Macduff now reveals to Macbeth that he entered the world by being “untimely ripp’d” from his mother’s womb: He was not, therefore, in the strict sense, “born” of woman. With the short but powerful sentence “Despair thy charm, ” Macbeth must know that his struggle for survival is over.