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She provides a foil to Lady Macbeth. Also, because she is such a sympathetic character, we are the more horrified by her pointless murder. This helps reconcile us as an audience to Macduff's killing of Macbeth later. In Shakespeare's day, a good revenge always made for a good play.

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