Macbeth is crowned and Banquo suspects him of foul-play. In fear that Banquo will expose him and the opportunity to have Fléance, Banquo's son, killed (* remember: the witches predicted Banquo's predecessors will be kings.), Macbeth hires two goons to murder them both, but Fléance escapes. Macbeth has visions of Banquo that night, and reacts suspiciously, screaming hysterically. One is now able to see how paranoia is beginning to take over. Macduff, a nobleman, begins to suspect Macbeth, but Macbeth catches on and visits the three witches again, demanding more predictions, and they confirm his fears, but secure him at the same time. Afterward, Macbeth sends a murderer to kill Lady Macduff and her son. Macbeth killed for his own gain, killed for security - now he murdered in cold blood, without cause. He has completely changed now, due to the witches. When Lady Macbeth, Macbeth's supposedly dearest partner in greatness, kills herself in the end, Macbeth responds, "She should have died hereafter- (Mac 5.5.17). Macduff and Malcolm brings the English army to Dunsinane, holding tree branches to elude predictions of size and has Macbeth killed.
However, characters have been positively influenced by events or other characters. Amazingly, the witches, for instance, influenced Banquo to think less pessimistically, and perhaps even give him hope. When the witches' prophesized Macbeth's crowning and Banquo's long line of Kingsmen in Banquo's fortune, Banquo had figuratively laughed at the prospect, but, after Macbeth had been made King, he thought:.
Thou hast it now : King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promis'd ; and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for t ; yet it was said I t should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If there come truth from them - As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine - Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracle as well, And set me up in hope? But, hush! no more (Mac 3.
