Banquo's Death In Macbeth

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Shakespeare’s Macbeth encompasses the deaths of countless characters. It may seem harsh for wishing death upon an individual, however, a being’s death can though to be either fair or foul based on their attitudes and actions. Lady Macbeth, Banquo, and Macbeth are all characters that have passed in the play; Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both acquire fair deaths, while Banquo, on the other hand, attains a foul fatality. Although many characters come to a fair or foul end in Macbeth, the characterization of their death is based on the events of the character’s prior experiences. To begin, the death of Lady Macbeth is considerably fair. This is demonstrated by the way she encourages Macbeth, the fact that she does not think about consequences, …show more content…

Moreover, She does not think about the future effects of the first murder and how she can stop Macbeth from further harming others. Although in the beginning, Lady Macbeth tries to stop her husband from doing evil to become king, she ends up helping Macbeth with his evils tasks. She also ends up making the plan of the murder. Ultimately, She helps Macbeth with the slaying of Duncan. After Macbeth fails to carry out the original task of leaving the daggers and smearing blood, Lady Macbeth commands Macbeth to, “Give me the daggers.” (II. ii. 65) and she also continues to disdain Macbeth by saying, “... The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil.” (II. ii. 65-67). Therefore the mortality of Lady Macbeth is fair because of her motivation to Macbeth, inconsiderable thoughts about the forthcoming, and her assistance with the death of the king of …show more content…

This is evidenced by his frame of mind, his malignant operations, and he is responsible for the mortalities that arise. First of all, Macbeth’s mental state initiates the action he executes. During the initial murder, Macbeth heard the voices of the chamberlains, “... one did laugh in ‘s sleep, and one cried ‘Murder!’”. (II.ii. 29). As a result of Macbeth’s paranoia of being seen murdering Duncan, he kills the guards when he is not supposed to. As the play progresses, Macbeth slowly loses his ethical line and proceeds to do the vengeful acts that arose in his mind. Also, Macbeth chooses to make his prophecies to come true through malevolent deeds. He will do anything to stop the baggage that will prevent him from being king. After hearing the prophecy of “Beware Macduff! / Beware the Thane of Fife … “ (IV. i. 78-79) from the First Apparition, Macbeth decides to eliminate Macduff and his family. This is because he feels betrayed by Macduff for starting a rebellion against him. Also, Finally, he is the reason why the consistent amount of deaths occur. Macbeth is clearly a horrible king. He has not done anything good to Scotland after going to the scone. Macbeth put his needs before the needs of the citizens. In order for him to please himself, he simply gets rid of the problem through the bloodshed of others. He blindly kills others with the help of hired murderers. The worst thing about this is that he sees no wrong in doing so.

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