Macbeth Vs Banquo Analysis
To begin with Macbeth and Banquo had their prophecies, both the characters and the audience are forced to wonder about fate. Is it real? Is action necessary to make it come to pass, or will the prophecy come true no matter what one does? Different characters answer these questions in different ways at different times, and the final answers are ambiguous as fate always is.
Unlike Banquo, Macbeth kills Duncan. Macbeth tries to master fate, to make fate conform to exactly what he wants. But, of course, fate does not work that way. By trying to master fate once, Macbeth puts himself in the position of having to master fate always. At every instant, he has to struggle against those parts of the witches' prophecies do not favor him. Mainly, Macbeth …show more content…
But then we have a scene with an intelligent and endearing child, the son of Macduff, chatting with his mother, wondering what’s happened to his father, who has fled to England. Macbeth’s hired killers enter and begin their slaughter of Macduff’s family, on the orders of Macbeth, starting with the killing of the child. Directors of productions of the play are able to make that as brutal and bloody as they like.
In conclusion it begins in battle, contains the murder of men, women, and children, and ends not just with a climactic siege but the suicide of Lady Macbeth and the beheading of its main character, Macbeth. As Macbeth himself says after seeing Banquo's ghost, "blood will to blood." Violence leads to violence, a vicious cycle. This play reminds us that Shakespeare writes very vulgar and absurd, but this is the creative mind that made Macbeth and other plays he has written well known and to be the most famous plays here, even many centuries after it was written.
This play happened to have a lot of violence in it, which made it stand out and be as great as it is. Others vary on saying the brutal play was a brilliant touch to it and really takes Shakespears plays to a new culture in
Unlike Banquo, Macbeth kills Duncan. Macbeth tries to master fate, to make fate conform to exactly what he wants. But, of course, fate does not work that way. By trying to master fate once, Macbeth puts himself in the position of having to master fate always. At every instant, he has to struggle against those parts of the witches' prophecies do not favor him. Mainly, Macbeth …show more content…
But then we have a scene with an intelligent and endearing child, the son of Macduff, chatting with his mother, wondering what’s happened to his father, who has fled to England. Macbeth’s hired killers enter and begin their slaughter of Macduff’s family, on the orders of Macbeth, starting with the killing of the child. Directors of productions of the play are able to make that as brutal and bloody as they like.
In conclusion it begins in battle, contains the murder of men, women, and children, and ends not just with a climactic siege but the suicide of Lady Macbeth and the beheading of its main character, Macbeth. As Macbeth himself says after seeing Banquo's ghost, "blood will to blood." Violence leads to violence, a vicious cycle. This play reminds us that Shakespeare writes very vulgar and absurd, but this is the creative mind that made Macbeth and other plays he has written well known and to be the most famous plays here, even many centuries after it was written.
This play happened to have a lot of violence in it, which made it stand out and be as great as it is. Others vary on saying the brutal play was a brilliant touch to it and really takes Shakespears plays to a new culture in