He needed the blessing most at this particular moment. The morning after the murder he is going through more emotions fear and shock are a few of them. At the start of this scene, Act 2, Scene 3 Macbeth is tense and edgy and seems unable to say more than brief formal statements. He again shows guilt and regret when he says, “Had I died but an hour before this chance, I would have lived a blessed time.” Apart from feeling these emotions we see something dark brooding towards the end of the scene. It is almost showing the beginning of the end for him. “You are and do not know’t.” what Macbeth said had a lot of menace, he could almost be enjoying the feelings of threat, menace, power and control that are going through his mind and body. Macbeth is now going insane he has become paranoid and power crazy. He knows that Banquo was with him when the predictions were made, and knows that he must be suspicious, that all prophecies have become true so quickly and he knew partly about Macbeth's murderous thoughts. The last time that Macbeth's conscience appears to be evident is when he is at a banquet. He is sick with worry and guilt about Banquo's murder. Banquo was his best friend and he had needed both Banquo and Fleance dead, but Fleance escaped, this throws him into a panic. The banquet is intended to confirm Macbeth as a fitting king. The banquet is goes wrong when he starts to see an image of Banquo’s ghost. This is the first public function since Macbeth's coronation, and he needs the important guests (who are potentially his enemies), to feel at ease because he is in control. When it starts to go wrong he is desperate to calm them.Macbeth now begins to depend totally on the Witches, he thinks about them all the time, they are always present in his mind. He believes that he cannot make a decision without consulting the sisters first. When the consequences of the murders of Duncan and Banquo are too much...
