In act 4, scene 2, Lady Macduff says of her son, "Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless.” How does this hyperbole add to the bitter mood in this part of the text?

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by emphasizing the anger that Lady Macduff feels over Macduff’s absence

Macbeth, Part 1: Using Reading Strategies to Paraphrase

In act 4, scene 2, Lady Macduff says of her son, "Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless.” How does this hyperbole add to the bitter mood in this part of the text?

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