External Differences Between Macbeth And The Forest

This was spoken by the messenger to Macbeth in telling the king of the advancement of the moving “first” from Birnam Woods to the castle. The passage is a dramatic irony because Macbeth and the messenger did not know, but the audience knows, that Malcolm and Macduff’s troops, English troops, are hidden under tree branches, along their trip to the kingdom, in order to disguise of their size of army troops. This is an external conflict of man vs. nature between Macbeth and the “forest” in which was prophesied by the Third Apparition. The lines can also point out a metaphor in which the “forest” is moving but, in reality, it was really the armies of Macduff and Malcolm are disguised and moving with.