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To: Dr. Sivana

MacDuff?


23 posted on 02/29/2012 10:35:43 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

Spoiler Alert

In MacBeth, the witches tell King Macbeth of Scotland (who killed Duncan to ultimately take the throne) that he could not be beaten by a man born of a woman. MacDuff, who beheads MacBeth late in the play came into the world through a Caesararean section, and hence was not “born” of a woman.

I was musing that MacDuff, not having been born, could not be a naturally born subject (in a monarchy) nor a naturally born citizen (under a democratic republic).


24 posted on 02/29/2012 11:12:02 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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