what went wrong? Similarly to Banquo’s ignorance to the sign in the metaphor, he equally decides in Macbeth to not act upon the witches’ prophecies and thus surrenders to the force of fate. Contrastingly, Macbeth, hungry for power, exercises free will in order to personally guarantee the fulfillment of the predictions, eventually killing Banquo and many other innocent characters. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Banquo and the title character’s contracting responses to supernatural prophecies exemplify how…
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