Wait, what did those witches predict again?
I recall some people getting right annoyed at this scene once and the fact that chopped branches constituted "Birnam Wood moving to Dunsiname." Be mad at Macbeth if you're looking for a target, not Shakespeare - he's the one that puts his trust in the witches.
We meet two new characters here. Siward, the English general, speaks first, and his son - "Young Siward," no foolin' - speaks last. Those are normally the general's lines at the end, but I thought I'd let junior get to say something now. Oh, no reason...
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