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Why did Shakespeare choose to make Mac duff rather than Malcolm Macbeth's nemesis?
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∙ 7y ago
William Shakespeare [Baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616] chose to make Macduff rather than the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] the nemesis of Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057]. The reason was the annihilation of Macduff's entire family and household under Macbeth's orders. Malcolm's father, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040], died under Macbeth's daggers. But the bloodline persisted, because the King's sons, Malcolm and the subsequent King Donald III [d. 1099], both survived. In contrast, Macduff had nothing left.
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∙ 7y agoIt was in his source. Holinshed's chronicles Book V contain the following (I have modernised the spelling):
Macbeth perceiving that Macduff was hard at his back, leapt off his horse, saying; "Thou traitor, what meaneth it that thou shouldest thus in vain follow me that am not appointed to be slain by any creature that is born of woman, come on therefore, and receive thy reward which thou hast deserved for thy pains," and therewithal he lifted up his sword thinking to have slain him.
But Macduff quickly avoiding from his horse, yet he came at him, answered (with his naked sword in his hand) saying: "It is true Macbeth, and now shall thine insatiable cruelty have an end, for I am even he that thy wizards have told thee of, who was never borne of my mother, but ripped out of her womb:" therewithal he stepped unto him, and slew him in the place. Then cutting his head from his shoulders, he set it upon a pole, and brought it unto Malcolm.
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