g was coming in to play again. The evil was making him commit a hellsome crime. He had already committed a sinful crime he was sure to be going to hell, so it would not really matter if he committed another murder.“To leave no rubs nor batches in the work Fleance his son, that keeps him company,Whose absence is no less material to me?Than is his father’s must embrace the fateOf that dark hour. Resolve yourself apart,I’ll come to you anon.” Banquo who was Macbeth’s best friend was dead because of the evil ambition, and eagerness of denying the future. But to his disappointment Fleance got away, but Banquo was dead.In Act 3 Scene 4, the scene of the banquet. It is seen the evil displayed physically. The ghost of Banquo comes back to haunt Macbeth, as his plan backfired. This makes Macbeth wonder what else the future holds for him……The key were the witches.The first thing to realise is that in Shakespeare's time women were still being burned for witchcraft. Although the idea of witches may seem funny to us they would have been pretty disturbing to Shakespeare's audience. The mere fact that the play starts with witches would have given it a worrying feel. At first they do not seem evil. They give Macbeth good news - they tell him he will become king. When they reappear in Act Four, though, things have changed. Macbeth has become a bloody murderer and the witches are his accomplices. The spell they chant round their cauldron is pretty gruesome and designed to make your stomach turn. Some of these may no longer seem very dreadful to us many still do - look in particular at what the third witch puts in. Which of those items do you think is the most revolting? By associating with these foul hags Macbeth has become part of their evil work.“Then live Macduff, what need I fear of thee?”They give a supernatural edge to the play. Macbeth is destroyed by the combination of the evil forces around h...
