Which statement best explains the importance of the spirits’ predictions near the end of william shakespeare’s the tragedy of macbeth?

macbeth feels confident because he thinks none of the predictions can come true.

macbeth realizes that the predictions were misleading and that he is doomed.

macbeth feels sad that the predictions were about macduff’s advancing armies.

macbeth realizes that all of the predictions were true and could have no effect on his fate.

The correct answer is B.

Near the end of the play, the spirits tell Macbeth that he cannot be harmed by any man born of woman and he will be safe until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Castle.

Believing none of this two events could ever take place, Macbeth relaxes.

However, the predictions were misleading since while advincing to attack the castle, the English disguised itself with branches and boughs from Birnam Wood and and Macduff was not born of woman but “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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