Macbeth vs. Banquo

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worry and almost aborts the crime. It takes Lady Macbeth’s cunning and tricky personality to push him into the deed. After the murder, however, her powerful personality begins to disintegrate, leaving Macbeth increasingly alone. He plots a series of murders to secure his throne, and moments of terrible guilt such as when Banquo’s ghost appears and after his wife’s death. At one point and time Macbeth is too ambitious to allow his conscience to stop him from murdering his way to the throne, but at the same time was not happy with himself as a murderer.
As things fall apart for him at the end of the play, he seems almost relieved—with the English army at his gates, he can finally return to life as a warrior! In part, this stems from his fatal confidence in the witches’ pkrophecies, but it also seems to derive from the fact that he has returned to the arena where he had been most successful, the battlefield. Macbeth never seems to even consider suicide: “Why should I play the ...

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