Wondering if the ends justify the means, and what the end really is. He went from being an ambitious man, knowing what he wanted, to being a shell of regret. Macbeth keeps chasing his ambition, but alas it causes paranoia. He tells her to stay innocent until everything is completed. Macbeth discusses his troubles with Lady Macbeth: he is unhappy that not everything is sorted out but won’t tell her the next part of his plan. Macbeth says this in phrases such as ‘Which in his death were perfect.’ P92 Something that needs to be abolished in order for him to be fixed. p 86 Putting blame on someone else, trying to lower Banquo’s suspicion.ĭisease – Macbeth talks about Banquo as if he is but a disease. Which could also be seen as a form of tyranny.īlood – when talking about the murderers to Banquo, Macbeth calls them ‘bloody cousins’. He leads them to murder an innocent, and good man, just to protect himself. Macbeth uses his titles and his respected position, to convince some people that Banquo is bad, and has caused them grief. He knows the possible motives for why Macbeth would kill the good King Duncan. Banquo has more of an insight than the other thanes. There are people of the nobility who are suspicious and fearing Macbeth may not be the man he seems to be.
Therefore, he sees that he killed a man he cared about for a crown that will ultimately be fruitless.Īppearance hiding reality is something we see in this act. Macbeth doesn’t have any children he can pass his crown to. Macbeth sees that by killing Duncan and taking the crown he’s just stepped the prophecy even closer to Banquo’s offspring receiving the crown. Macbeth knows that if he lets Banquo know about the horrid deed, Banquo will do only what he knows is right. When Macbeth states ‘Our fears in Banquo stick deep.’ That could be because Banquo has a certain nobility, and morale that Macbeth himself lacks. The prophecy has come true so far so it’s possible Banquo’s end will come true too. Macbeth is aware of the threat Banquo poses on his life, and title. Saying the crown came to Macbeth’s grasp through shameful ways. Banquo states this in the line, “Thou played’st” p 84 most foully for ‘t. Therefore he has reason to believe Macbeth may have committed a horrid deed in order to gain the crown. He is the only other person who witnessed the prophecy. Some men arrive whom Macbeth sends off to murder Banquo.īanquo’s suspicion rises when he monologues. He goes riding with his son, Fleance and Macbeth thinks about his fear of Banquo. Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itselfĪt first, Macbeth is reluctant to resort to violence in service to his ambition, but with prompting from Lady Macbeth, he slides down the slippery slope of sacrificing others for his own ends.Banquo thinks about the prophecy when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter to invite him to the banquet that night. To prick the sides of my intent, but only At various points, Macbeth himself is aware of this tension, as you can see in these lines where he describes how he needs his ambition to succeed: Eventually, this pursuit of goals becomes Macbeth’s hamartia, or fatal flaw.Īs the play progresses, the tension increases between ambition and what must be sacrificed to achieve a goal. Together with his wife, Macbeth commits increasingly more violent acts to achieve his goal, sacrificing everything for ambition. The witches tell him he will become king, planting the seed of ambition in his soul. The title character of the play Macbeth is a Scottish general who listens to the prophecy of three witches. One of the strongest themes in Macbeth is ambition and the destruction that can happen when hubris and greed for power go unchecked.
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