Macduff assumed at first that Malcom and Donalbain hired the soldiers to kill their father and they fled to avoid any confrontations. However, it is evident that they fled because they suspected that they were the targets of a conspiracy.
Macduff
Macbeth didn't want to fight Macduff, because he didn't want to add any more bloodied casualties to the Fife Castle massacre body count. In Act 4 Scene 2, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] had Macduff's entire family and household massacred at the Macduffs' home of Fife Castle. In Act 5 Scene 8, Macduff finally caught up with Macbeth and challenged him to fight. Macbeth didn't want to fight for two reasons. The reason that he didn't reveal was the witches' warning to beware of Macduff. The reason that he did reveal was the weight on his soul from having ordered the Fife Castle massacre.
Act 5, scene 5. Just after Macbeth finds out Burnam wood is moving.
Macbeth didn't think Macduff was a threat because the witches said "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth." Macbeth welcomes this good news and, assuming Macduff was born the natural way, Macbeth thinks he has nothing to fear.
I think that Macbeth was at first not as "worried" about the witches and their curses as then on in the play he finds out that every thing that the witches has been tellin him are true.
Macduff
=Macduff The Thane of Fife=
Macbeth didn't want to fight Macduff, because he didn't want to add any more bloodied casualties to the Fife Castle massacre body count. In Act 4 Scene 2, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] had Macduff's entire family and household massacred at the Macduffs' home of Fife Castle. In Act 5 Scene 8, Macduff finally caught up with Macbeth and challenged him to fight. Macbeth didn't want to fight for two reasons. The reason that he didn't reveal was the witches' warning to beware of Macduff. The reason that he did reveal was the weight on his soul from having ordered the Fife Castle massacre.
Act 5, scene 5. Just after Macbeth finds out Burnam wood is moving.
Macbeth didn't think Macduff was a threat because the witches said "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth." Macbeth welcomes this good news and, assuming Macduff was born the natural way, Macbeth thinks he has nothing to fear.
I think that Macbeth was at first not as "worried" about the witches and their curses as then on in the play he finds out that every thing that the witches has been tellin him are true.
Macduff believes that Macbeth killed King Duncan and thus doesn't believe Macbeth should be king. This is evident in the fact that while Macbeth goes to Scone, Macduff finds Malcolm and convinces him to reclaim the throne.
Quick, get some Duncan Donuts in!
The bodyguards are the ones who find Duncan's body in Macbeth. Many misread the popular literary work and say that Macduff found the body, but this is not so.
MacDuff, who says, "Oh horror, horror. horror!" You might say he's horrified.
Lady Macbeth cannot kill King Duncan because he reminds her of her father. She finds herself unable to harm him when she sees him resembling her father as he sleeps.
*Banquo. Macbeth's best friend is Banquo, but he is also Macbeth's enemy. After the meeting with the witches, Macbeth finds out that he will become the Thane of Cawdor and the King of Scotland. Eventually, he achieves both of these prophecies. Banquo, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth are the only people that know about the witches. Banquo becomes suspicious of Macbeth because Macbeth fulfills the prophecy after King Duncan is murdered, and Macbeth acknowledges this fact. Basically, Macbeth doesn't trust Banquo.