Banquo Flashcards
1
Q
Ts1: warns MB that the witches may be evil agents of the devil
A
‘Instruments of darkness’
2
Q
Ts2: unlike macbeth, he leaves whether his descendants become kings or not to fate
A
‘It was said… that myself should be the root and father of many kings’
‘Barren sceptre’
3
Q
Ts3: Banquo returns as the projection of MB’s guilty conscience in the form of a ghost
A
‘They rise again… and push us from our stools’
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’
4
Q
Ts4: B’s murder is the beginning of MB becoming a callous murderer?
A
‘I am in blood stepped in so far, returning were as tedious as go o’er’
