Why is Act 4, Scene 3 in “MacBeth” so important?
heres your hwk: In this scene Malcolm tests MacdDuff to see if he really cares about Scotland and is against MacBeth or not. Malcolm will be the new king so he lies to MacDuff about how evil he is, saying he is lustful, greedy, has no good qualities, and would destroy the world. Malcolm sees that MacDuff truly is against MacBeth when he expresses so much concern for Scotland. Afterwards Malcolm tells MacDuff the truth. it was a test, to see if he cared, the audience/reader only knows Malcolm’s confession of his “test”, the reader/audience doesn’t know this is a test, untill Malcolm’s confession of his “test”, so surprise is the literary element used by Shakespeare..
