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Monday, December 26, 2016

The Banquet Scene in Macbeth

In the opening of this motion-picture show Macbeth is having a banquet with both(prenominal) of his fellow guests. Before this convulsion Banquo has been killed by the murderers. Macbeth, s bakshising to the murderer, is proverb in this context: barely now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to invigorated doubts and fears. But Banquos good? By this, Macbeth is commenting and saying about how he feels uneasy that Fleance has escaped, entirely he keeps repeating that Banquo is dispatched. The irony be expressed here is that he uses the word safe in a strange supernatural and mysterious way. Because obviously, Banquo is and isnt safe. He is safe because hes in heaven, with Dun tummy, away from each(prenominal) evils of this world and what Macbeth has turned it into by being king. Also he is dead and bloody in a trench...obviously non safe.\nMacbeth to a fault describes and says, There the grown ophidian lies; the worm thats fled hath nature that in time will nastin ess breed, no teeth for th present. Here, he is commenting on how Banquos death-being the grown and close dangerous serpent, is no longer a harm to Macbeth because he was killed by the murderers. Fleance or so called, the worm, in this part escapes. Macbeth is non currently too unbalanced about him. Since he is non in an adulthood be and also not considered as dangerous as his bugger off (aka Duncan) was, although Fleance will be a threat to Macbeth in the future. This scene is the highlight of the act or play and also the peak and the climax of this act or play. We know that Banquos ghost is session in the chair which was not mute for Banquo, but was reserved for Macbeth, but only Macbeth can see the ghost cause us to have salient irony. The scene is bizarrely or mysteriously humorous; due to the fact, Macbeth cannot guarantee his reaction upon seeing the ghost of Banquo. Lady Macbeths scolds Macbeth that he is playacting cowardly:\nThe times has been\nThat when th e brains were out, the reality would die,\nAnd there an end; but now ...

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