Banquo's Loyalty In Macbeth

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Macbeth is shown to be both loyal and disloyal at the same time. His greatest loyalty is with himself and his ambitions. As a result of his strong loyalty to himself, Macbeth betrays King Duncan, Banquo and his morals. He betrays his King by murdering him in his sleep. In doing so he shows his loyalty towards his ambitions. He does this based on the witches' prophecy that states that he will be future King of Scotland He ignores his conscience and mortal code. He allows for his ambitions to take control of him which leads him to killing Duncan. Another showing of his loyalty to his ambitions and himself was when he killed Banquo. Banquo was his closest friend and was with Macbeth when the witches had shown up and told him the prophesy of their