Macbeth Banquo Relationship

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a literary canon for a reason, it plays with many emotions and moralities that can assure you that there is no two people that have the same perspective on its characters and the relationships that they share with each other. More specifically the relationship between Macbeth, Banquo and MacDuff. At the beginning of the play the main relationship between the three is MacBeth and Banquo, where it would seem that they are very much alike being that they are friends or allies, but that relationship changes throughout the play and that is when the reader can finally tell that Banquo was more of a distraction to Macbeth and his plans to become king. Later when things have gotten worse because of Macbeth’s actions we see

While this iconic character is being driven by power and the hunger for more of it, we see how he changes and so does his connection with Banquo who seems to be an ally at the start then be a roadblock to him and his wife, lady macbeth, in obtaining and hold the title of kingship.it would seem that Macbeth and Baquo would be seen as allies they have noting in common other than being noble memebers of the king’s army. Further more it really shows their contrast when they hear the prophecies the three witches speak of and how they take the news, Banquo seems to disregard what the witches say while macbeth is taken by the idea of him being king but has some self restraint seeing that the king still lives and he sees no other way to obtain the throne other than killing the king. Banquo bases his actions off feelings or intuition of sorts, unlike Macbeth who reacts with no consideration for what things really mean. This is the base of the end of their friendship; Banquo sensed that there was something wrong with Macbeth after the sudden death of King Duncan and Macbeth acts upon the suspicions of his “friend” and ends up killing

Perhaps it is his characteristics, those similar to Banquo’s, reacting based on feelings and intuition that mark him as a vengeful hero and Macbeth the blinded yet devious antihero. He is the one that discovered KIng Duncan’s dead body and felt that Macbeth was not suited to be king that is when he leaves to England in hopes to bring back Malcolm who will help him defeat Macbeth. His traits when it comes to certain aspects differ greatly from those of Macbeth like when it came to the death of their wives Macduff expresses his emotions and says “But I must also feel it as a man” representing a man with emotions something that Macbeth sees as a trait that no true man has. It is emphasized in his reaction when Lady Macbeth dies, he states “"She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word” which can presumed to mean that she was bound to die at some point and that he is sad but it was not the adequate time for him to mourn her; so he overlooks that situations and goes on with his affairs. So with that in hand Macduff uses those emotions to fuel his motivation in killing Macbeth ending the tyranny that came with Macbeth’s