As Malcolm prepares his troops, the only thing that Macbeth can think about is how a man couldn't be born of a woman and how Birnam wood could travel to Dunsinane. The information that the witches have provided him are making him think that there is no way that he can be harmed.
The war begins and Macbeth is doing everything that he can to avoid Macduff because that was his first piece of advice was to beware of him. As he sits in his tower watching as his men die for him, a messenger comes to him and is in amazement because of something that he saw. To his eye it looked as if Birnam wood was coming in over the top of Dunisinane hill. Thinking that there was no way that that could ever happen Macbeth goes and looks for himself. It seemed that Malcolm's men had camouflaged them self in Birnam wood and brush and they were moving in on the castle. So there's one check off the list. As Macbeth begins to panic, he thinks well that still leaves the impossibility of a man not being born of a woman. So he starts to feel calm again.
As Macbeth begins to fight when he finds himself face to face with Macduff. They begin to fight and Macbeth feels very confident to the wise words of his apparition. As he tells Macduff of these things, Macduff proceeds to tell Macbeth that he was not born of a woman because they cut him out of his mother's womb in a c-section. Has Macbeth hears these words he begins to realize that the witches had made him believe that their advice was none other than a warning of how he would die.
The trumpets sound of victory and defeat and Malcolm is crowned king.
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