Can you be more
specific?
This is the final act, and last scene in the
play. In this scene, Macbeth and Macduff finally meet up. Macbeth has just learned that
one of the witches' predictions has come true - Birnam Wood (the English army, so vast
it looked like an entire woods moving) came up to the castle. Macbeth still thought he
was safe, however, because the witches also told him "no one born of woman" could harm
him. In this scene, Macduff tells Macbeth that HE was born by Caesarian section (so not
really born of woman in the normal way - he was cut out of his mother's womb). Macbeth
at first refuses to fight Macduff because he has already killed all of Macduff's family.
At the beginning of the scene, he says he is not going to be like one of those Romans
and fall on his sword (i.e. kill himself), but then he refuses to fight Macduff for the
reasons I have already mentioned. When Macduff reveals the details of his birth,
however, Macbeth decides he is going to go down fighting, but Macduff eventually kills
him. He enters with Macbeth's severed head at the end of the scene. Macbeth had refused
to surrender to Macduff.
The scene ends with Malcolm being
restored to his rightful place as king of Scotland.
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