Banquo In Act 2 Scene 1-4 Of Macbeth '

Act II Scenes 1-4

Banquo’s reaction to the witches’ prophecies are different from Macbeth’s. He sees them as supernatural forces in which try to play roles of real human beings. For one he doesn't seem as ambitious as Macbeth. This could be partly due to the fact that he doesn't have a wife as deceiving and 20.infamous as Lady Macbeth. Banquo questions they’re prophecies and is skeptical that the witches are deceiving them. Banquo tells the witches, “I' th' name of truth/, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed/ Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner/ You greet with present grace and great prediction/ Of noble having and of royal hope/, That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not/. If you can look into the seeds of time/ And say which grain will grow and which will not/, Speak, then, to me, who neither

Nature plays a 33.prodigious role in relation with human events in this act. In scene 3, Lennox explains the environment and says,”The night has been unruly, as they say, lamenting heard i'th'air, strange screams of death / And prophesying with accents terrible / Of dire combustion and confused events, / New hatched to the'woeful time. The obscure bird/ Clamoured the livelong night. Some say, the earth / Was feverous and did shake." (2.3.61-69) The state of the nature was in juncture with Duncan’s death. Lennox himself was complaining about how rowdy the night was. The dark ideas and animals expressed in the quote such as the strange screams of death, black birds, confusion, earthquake all symbolize death and anguish. Later in scene 4, the Old Man says, “a falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place,/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.” (2.4.15-16). This quote expresses how the falcon, which is Duncan, is supposedly higher in the food chain. Meanwhile Macbeth is considered to be the owl who ranked lower than Dunkan. Despite the fact, Duncan has more power than Macbeth, Macbeth is able to dethrone him and oppose the disposition of