Question about Macbeth?

Question

What two happenings reverse Macbeth's belief in his own invincibility?
I have read the play and seen it also. Please help with this question. Thanks

What I am asking is what events change Macbeth ...not what made him think he was invincible...but what makes him realize that he is NOT invincible.

Answer 1

no.1 that no man born FROM A WOm an can ever hurt him. instead what happened that macbeth's killer was TAKEN OUTfrom his mother. he was sergically removed, which means c section. 2)the forest would WALK to him. the forest did walk to him.infact the forest did walk to him. soldiers dressed as trees came crawling. and from a distance it seemed that the entire forest was walking.

Answer 2

And the other is:

"The witches have told him that he cannot be killed by any "man of woman born". But, in the final fight scene, he learns too late that MacDuff "was, from his mother's womb, untimely ripped" and that the witches have, in Banquo's words from the start of the play, won him "with honest trifles" and betrayed him "in deepest consequence", and his destruction is complete."

Regarding the first, the "wood" comes to Dunsinane
because as Macduff's army moves through it, all the soldiers cut off branches from the trees in order to camouflage themselves. Thus, it looked as though the "wood" was moving.

Messenger: "As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
The wood began to move."

Macbeth:
"If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here."

Answer 3

One is the fact the Birnham Wood "comes" to his castle.

Answer 4

Finding out that McDuff is not "of woman born"