After that, Duncan’s son flees on the fear that he’ll be next and Macbeth is crowned king. But then he starts to worry, that his friend Banquo might put the pieces together, and know for sure that Macbeth is the true killer. Macbeth being uneasy, decides to kill his best friend Banquo and Banquo’s son Fleance. That way, no-one will know of the witches and the next king inline is killed as well. Macbeth sees it as two birds with one stone, and he hires a band of killers to ambush Banquo while he’s attending Macbeth’s feast.
Macbeth then decided to plan the murder of Banquo and his son, even though Banquo is his best friend. Macbeth was manipulated into following with Lady Macbeth’s plan, “I dare do all that may become a man/ who dares do more is none” (1.7.51-52). This caused Macbeth into killing the King. This leads Macbeth towards his death. In the end, Macbeth’s choices had lead him to his downfall.
(I,iii,68) this quote that the witches say is their prediction that Macbeth will be king but Banquo’s descendants will be granted King after Macbeth. This leads Macbeth to hire henchmen in order to take out Banquo and his son in order to keep his power above all. Another murder that Macbeth has done to prevent an uprising against him was when he killed Macduff’s family, he killed his family in order to prevent a revolt on him “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff, Beware the Thane of fire. Dismiss me.
He had made the decision to have Banquo killed, after he realizes that Banquo poses a threat to Macbeth’s rise to power. He choose to try and have Fleance killed too, because he was in line to become future king one day. Macbeth didn’t want a “fruitless crown.” Macbeth hired the murderers to kill them on his own he didn’t have any help to make the decision on having them killed. Macbeth had also never told Lady Macbeth about hiring the murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance.
Macbeth, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, presents two characters, Macbeth and Macduff, who represent the aspects of leadership and ambition with different motives. Macbeth’s egocentric ambition leads him to become a ruthless leader, while Macduff’s ambition focuses on serving loyalty and service towards his country and his people. Both are Duncan's well-trusted thanes, but Macbeth’s selfish ambitions cause his passion to move over his reason, while Macduff sticks to keeping his reason over his passion. Due to the prophecy of witches, Macbeth indulges himself in creating his fate by carrying out malicious acts to keep his kinship safe from anyone; Macduff’s main priority becomes to rebel and dethrone Macbeth with the help of Malcolm
With their insight, he hopes to know more about his destiny and acquire even just a bit of reassurance that his future is safe. As he wished, Macbeth was given foresight into his undoing. When he learns about the rising suspicion toward his rule and the dissidence coming from Banquo's descendants, he decides to use and abuse this knowledge to slaughter his enemies, which means their families are first. Macbeth decides that the best way to dissuade the Macduffs from acting on anything is by ending their entire family line. Macbeth, now with the remorse for murder being drowned out by his mental instability, sends the murderers who ended Banquo on another mission to kill Macduff's wife and children.
Along with the murder of Banquo, Macbeth also gives orders to send murderers to kill Macduff’s family. Here, Macbeth struggles with paranoia; the witches have informed Macbeth about Macduff and his threat to his crown which led to his cruel and inhumane decision, “To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: / The castle of Macduff I will surprise; / Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’ the sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls[...]” (4. 1. 149-152). Macbeth has completely transformed into a tyrant and in order to rationalize is inhumane decisions, he rules everyone that he deems questionable as
He goes to see the witches and demands, "answer me To what I ask you"(IV.i.62-62). The witches respond with insight and explain that MacDuff is a powerful threat to him. Based on this information, he decides, "The castle of Macduff I will surprise, Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls"(IV.ii.157-159), and he carries through with the action. The murder of innocent children and a woman is completely unnecessary, but because Macbeth sought out the wisdom of the witches due to his paranoia from the vision of Banquo's unliving character, it occurred.
Later on in the play Macbeth killed Banquo because Banquo became suspicious of Macbeth’s behavior and the fear of him finding out the truth Macbeth got him killed. At Macbeth’s coronation he see Banquo’s ghost; you can either rule it out spiritual or psychological but the way Macbeth acted in front of his kingsman made everyone suspicious as to why is he acting like this and why did he use the same story with Banquo getting killed by his son like he did with Duncan’s sons. The puzzle to the pieces started getting put together and everyone started to find out that Macbeth is the person behind the killings. Before Macbeth died he killed one more family, the Macduff family; the witches gave out warnings to Macbeth about Macduff and with that Macbeth took action and killed his whole family; Macduff did not find out about it until Ross told Macduff and he wanted his revenge. At the end of the play Macduff and Malcolm attacked the kingdom and in the hands of Malcolm he killed
Macbeth, himself took these decisions and caused the downfall in his life. He had the taste of power with becoming the king. After having more power, greediness led him to murder Banquo and Macduff’s family. It is clearly shown that Macbeth was aware of what he was doing and knew the consequences. Macbeth really became the “dead butcher”, which Malcolm talked about.
While Fleance was able to escape, Banquo was not so lucky. The reason for his murder was because the witches say to Banquo that his sons will be king Macbeth is out of control, and it also led to his decision to kill Macduff’s family, as Macduff was considered a threat, having figured out his insanity. []. By the end of the play, Macbeth is lost in a pit of state. The crimes he committed had desensitized him.
He first orders for Banquo and his son, Fleance, to be killed because the witches had also predicted that Banquo’s son will become king. Macbeth says in regards to Banquo, “There is none but he whose being I do fear... Given to the common enemy of man, to make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings (Act 3, Scene 1)!” Banquo is
Eventually, he then acts upon his greed and abandons his morals through the vile words of Lady Macbeth. After the king 's death, Macbeth expresses his hatred towards killing the king "I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition, which overlaps itself/And falls on the ' other. " Specifically, under his new state of power, he was taking extra precautions to prevent anyone from taking his dignity and bloodline. Simultaneously becoming apprehensive of his throne for this purpose he kills Banquo otherwise his descendants will inherit the throne, and the killing of Macduff 's family since Macbeth was suspicious of his downfall might be coming. "
They told Macbeth that he was going to be king, and told Banquo that his children were going to be king. With the knowledge that there is a possibility to become king, along with the selfish human nature, noble Macbeth was easily swayed by this prophecy. At first, Macbeth’s conscience took care of his ambitions, he was afraid he would betray the king, because he knew that he was “his kinsman and his subject” (1.7.13). However as the three witches continue to encourage Macbeth with carefully chosen words, he eventually pushes his conscience away and committed crimes that were dishonourable. Macbeth, easily controlled by his ambitions, loses his noble and heroic title in fear of losing his power.
Lady Macbeth influences Macbeth to kill Duncan, but he continues to have second thoughts about it (i.vii.31-34) and feels terribly guilty afterwards (II.ii.63-66). However, following the murder of Duncan, Macbeth loses any ethics he had left. Macbeth kills the servants, Banquo, and Macduff’s whole family in cold-blooded murder. On the other hand, when Banquo ponders the witches prophecy for him, he contemplates the thought of having to kill someone to get power, but he quickly shuts it down (III.i.9-11).
