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Actually, most of the events in Act 4 are foreshadowed earlier. Macbeth's visit to the witches is foreshadowed by their initial appearance in Act 1 as well as Macbeth's stated intentions in Act III. The murder of Macduff's children is foreshadowed by a whole stream of images of murdered children, including Lady Macbeth's blood-curdling statement that she would have plucked her nipple from her child's gums and dashed its brains out, and even the image of a bloody child in Act IV Scene 1. It is only when we get to Scene 3 that we get some foreshadowing of what is to come in Act 5, especially in Macduff's demand, "front to front bring me this fiend of Scotland and myself" which is of course what happens.

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