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...view of all this an earlier utterance by Lady Macduff becomes clear...
When the news of this brutal "fry-up" reaches Macduff we have his shocked answer. This is a time when a man can be expected to speak the truth. He says...
Later in this scene there are many sly references. Lady Macduff refers to her son as "Poor bird"; and her son replying as to what he intends to do says "As birds do." But when the murderers enter at the end of this scene we have an outside opinion of the problem. Remember they have never seen Macduff's son before. What do they...
...first intimation is given in Scene 2, Act. IV. Here Lady Macduff talking of her husband says...
...pass off this speech as poetic imagery, but later reference shows that Lady Macduff was literally comparing the habits of birds known to her against her husband's action. The very use of the word flight for Macduff's visit to England brings to mind the mad panic he must have been in as it is well known that chickens do not fly particularly well...