Did Macbeth take the servant's reports seriously?

Answer 1

In Act 5 Scene 3, a servant in Dunsinane Castle tried to warn Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] of the approach of a 10,000 man strong force under Siward, the English Earl of Northumberland. Macbeth didn't take the reports seriously. Instead, he insulted the servant, and called the soldiers geese. The reason that Macbeth didn't take the reports seriously was his faith in the witches' predictions. The witches had said that he needed to fear only Macduff, a man not born of woman, and the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. Macbeth ended up considering the most important prediction his vulnerability to a man not born of woman. He simply didn't consider the practicalities of life whereby such a possibility wouldn't be an impossibility. He didn't think through to the possibility of a man being delivered by Caesarian section from a dead mother. And that in fact was the way in which Macduff came into the world.