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Why is the matter of macduffs birth important​

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Answer: he was born by cesarean section and fulfills the witches prophecy that only a man not born of a woman could kill Macbeth

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User Rksh
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The prophecy from the witches state that no woman born from man shall harm Macbeth. We learn in the story that Macduff was ultimately ripped out of his mothers womb (through a c-section) this means that he was technically actually never born
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