Banquo

Niccoló Machiavelli once said, “Fortune does not take away your reputation if you only squander it, but if you squander your own, that injures you.” Macbeth is a tragic story of how multiple kings are killed due to evil misfortune. Macbeth is the one knig that is not a very good leader and is overcome by fear itself. There are many points in which Macbeth and Machiavelli are related. Machiavelli talks about fear, suspicion, and advantages of others. Macbeth is acquainted with doing all of these…

the anonymous foe in Throne of Blood. One of the first encounter of the witches by Macbeth and Washizu gave both different reactions. When he first met the witches, Macbeth confronted the witches eagerly forced them to prophesy about the future of Banquo and him. On the other side,Washizu kept a stern face when he faced the witch. It was Miki, who asked the witch about the omens. It showed that Washizu was less ambitious. Washizu was a righteous being who viewed the account of the witch…

The Elizabethans believed that everything in the universe was interconnected, and that what caused things to happen were parallels between different realms. Shakespeare manages to incorporate some of these beliefs into The Tragedy of Macbeth. For example, Macbeth comes into contact with three witches who possess certain supernatural powers, such as telling one his or her destiny by seeing into the future. These witches shared with him what his future supposedly held in store. Would Macbeth’s…

Power is a force that should not be reckoned with and if it is used for evil instead of good, chaos will be unleashed. Shakespeare's play Macbeth, focuses on a tragic hero who desires to become the King of Scotland, and this overwhelming need for power ultimately consumes him. In Macbeth, the characters with power take actions that lead to corruption for themselves and for those around them. The witches in the play are powerful due to their ability to prophesize Macbeth's future and this is…

influence, by forcing Macbeth to do something that he probably doesn’t want to, that causes a spiral into their eventual downfall. In the middle of the play Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo, not the most masculine way to go about killing someone, but, this shows that Macbeth is trying to be masculine and by killing Banquo. His strive for masculinity shows that he is stuck in this downward spiral caused by masculinity, which underlines Shakespeare’s objection to masculinity. Because Lady…

There are many times when ambiguity is displayed throughout the drama. First, When Macbeth hosts King Duncan, he has the likings of a gracious host when in fact he is about to murder the king. Additionally, when it is found out that Duncan had died, Banquo says to look to the lady, implicating that they should not talk about such horrors in front of a fragile woman when in reality she was the mastermind behind the whole tragedy. Furthermore, Macbeth killed Duncan in order to claim honor and…

Macbeth are known as the Weird Sisters. These Witches set out to destroy Macbeth from the very beginning. Their power manages to turn well-respected and liked Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, to a hated and feared king. In Act II Scene III, Macbeth and Banquo run into the witches. The Third Witch tells Macbeth that he, “shalt be King, hereafter!” (Act I, Scene III). This is where the seed is planted in Macbeth’s mind to kill King Duncan to make himself the king, the thought possesses Macbeth’s mind…

crown, demonstrating how much control his ambition has over his entire life. As the play progresses, both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth commit an increasing number of crimes in order to protect themselves. Fearing suspicion, Macbeth orders the murders of Banquo and his son Fleance, and many others. Despite all the criminal measures he takes to protect his possession of the crown, Macbeth suffers his own great downfall and dies at the hands of the noble Macduff shortly after his wife commits suicide.…

Macbeth is a tragedy play written by the infamous William Shakespeare, in Shakespearean language, in the form of iambic pentameter. Macbeth is a play about a man named Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, the plot for Macbeth to become king and how he deals with the consequences of his actions. In this tragedy, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to convey the message of the story. One of the literary devices he uses are motifs, a literary device that is found in either a person, object, or…

three witches gave Macbeth the king prophecies, they also tell Banquo that his sons are in the line of the throne. This intimidates Macbeth, so he sees only one way to fix it, which is by killing Banquo. This is Macbeth’s turning point because instead of not trying to kill anyone, he is willing to do whatever it takes to become the one and only king, even if it means killing his best friend. While it was Macbeth’s idea to kill Banquo, this action also contributes to Macbeth’s insanity. The night…