Macbeth

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   luannw Teacher
   High School - 11th Grade

   If there is sympathy for Macbeth further developed in this short scene it is due to the inevitability of the outcome.  In this scene, Malcolm orders his men to camouflage themselves with tree limbs and branches from the trees in Birnam Woods, which clearly shows how the witches tricked Macbeth into feeling invulnerable.  Also, the audience learns that nearly all of Macbeth's men have abandoned him leaving him with only a few weak men who have no real loyalty to Macbeth  - "...And none serve with him but constrained things, / Whose hearts are absent, too."  The loneliness Macbeth must feel brings some sympathy from the audience.

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