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Banquo (Foil to Macbeth (He is similar to Macbeth in many ways, ie a noble…
Banquo
Foil to Macbeth
He is similar to Macbeth in many ways, ie a noble warrior etc
He also receives a prophecy, but does not act upon it - he trusts that if it was meant to be, it will happen
As such, he is a foil to Macbeth as he has ambition, but does not act upon it and therefore does not become evil
Sceptical of the witches
He is much more sceptical of the witches than Macbeth, and seems to understand the true nature of the supernatural
you should be women, and yet / your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm / the instruments of darkness tell us truths / win us with honest trifles, to betray's / in deepest consequences
Suspicious of Macbeth
He suspects Macbeth has killed Duncan, but does not say anything about it
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Shows how his loyalty to Macbeth, but also that he is not really that much more moral than Macbeth
Witches' prophecy
They prophesise that his descendants will become Kings, and this remains to be seen if it will come true; it is certainly possible as Fleance is not killed
The witches also say that he will be not so happy, yet much happier, which foreshadows that Macbeth will not be very happy in his position
Reappears as a ghost
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the times have been / that when the brains were out, the man would die / and there an end; but now they rise again
Wonders
Banquo is seen to wonder, in a soliloquy, whether his descendants will now become King, since Macbeth is now King: it should not stand in thy posterity / but that myself should be the root and father / of many Kings and may they not be my oracles as well / and set me up in hope - this is dramatic irony, as the audience will have known that James I was a descendant of Banquo