Scholars have interpreted this to mean that Banquo has been dreaming of murdering the king as Macbeth's accomplice in order to take the throne for his own family, as the Three Witches prophesied to him.

Macduff carries Macbeth's head onstage and Malcolm discusses how order has been restored.

No other version of the story has Macbeth kill the king in Macbeth's own castle.

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

Yet for other critics, it has not been so easy to resolve the question of Macbeth's motivation.

Christina León Alfar claims that even though scholars argue that Lady Macbeth's desire for spirits to " unsex " her violates gender norms, she has been falsely accused of being the source of violence in the play.

The boy appears in only one scene ( 4. 2 ), in which he briefly banters with his mother and is then murdered by Macbeth's thugs.

Holinshed portrays Banquo as an historical figure: he is an accomplice in Mac Bethad mac Findlaích's ( Macbeth's ) murder of Donnchad mac Crínáin ( King Duncan ) and plays an important part in ensuring that Macbeth, not Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ( Malcolm ), takes the throne in the coup that follows.

This premonition of the coming darkness in association with Macbeth's murders is repeated just before Banquo is killed: " it will be rain to-night ", Banquo tells his son Fleance.

In this reading, his good nature is so revolted by these thoughts that he gives his sword and dagger to Fleance to be sure they do not come true, but is so nervous at Macbeth's approach that he demands them back.

Banquo's ability to live on in different ways is another oppositional force, in this case to Macbeth's impending death.

Scholars debate whether Macbeth's vision of Banquo is real or a hallucination.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

Macbeth's first line is " So foul and fair a day I have not seen " ( 1. 3. 38 ).

In Chronicles, Banquo is an accomplice in Macbeth's murder of King Duncan.

One of Shakespeare's most forceful female characters, she spurs her husband mercilessly to kill Duncan and urges him to be strong afterward, yet is herself eventually driven to death by the effect of Macbeth's murders on her conscience.

Macbeth's generally accepted indebtedness to medieval tragedy is often seen as significant in the play's treatment of moral order.

Macbeth's coronation at Scone is depicted along with this confirmation as King by the Thanes, including MacDuff, who does so reluctantly.

The title of the novel is taken from Macbeth's famous soliloquy of act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth:

Macbeth's Stone, some south-west of the peel, is said to be the stone upon which Macbeth was beheaded.

This form of irony is important in Greek tragedy, as it is in Oedipus Rex and in the Duque de Rivas ' play that Verdi transformed into La Forza del Destino (" The Force of Destiny ") or Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, or in Macbeth's uncannily-derived knowledge of his own destiny, which in spite of all his actions does not preclude a horrible fate.

In this revenge play, when the raped and mutilated Lavinia reveals the identity of her rapists, her uncle Marcus invokes the story of Lucrece to urge an oath to revenge the crime: " And swear with me — as, with the woeful fere / And father of that chaste dishonoured dame, / Lord Junius Brutus swore for Lucrece ' rape -- / That we will prosecute by good advice / Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, / And see their blood, or die with this reproach " ( 4. 1. 89 – 94 ). The rapist Tarquin is also mentioned in Macbeth's soliloquy from Act 2 Scene 1 of Macbeth: " wither'd Murther.

The overall nature of Rysanek's voice is particularly evident in her 1959 recording of Lady Macbeth, when she was in her prime at age 33, where her somewhat hollow lower register is combined with soaring, dramatic power in her upper range, with strong skills at negotiating Lady Macbeth's upper range coloratura.

* The phrase comes from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 and is part of Macbeth's soliloquy Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Still, he is so nervous at Macbeth's approach that he demands their return.

Two more subtle changes include an insinuation that Lady Macbeth fatally stabs Duncan prior to Macbeth's attack on the king, and the fact that Macbeth is witness to Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and madness scene ; in the play, he is not present.

* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife and later Queen of Scotland

* Doctor – Lady Macbeth's doctor

* Gentlewoman – Lady Macbeth's caretaker

Macbeth and Banquo then together plot the murder of Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging.

" The Kemble-Siddons performances were the first widely influential productions in which Lady Macbeth's villainy was presented as deeper and more powerful than Macbeth's.

His detractors, among them Henry James, deplored his arbitrary word changes such as " would have " for " should have " in the speech at Lady Macbeth's death, and also his " neurasthenic " and " finicky " approach to the character.

* In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's famous cry " Out, damned spot!

Her most famous role was that of Lady Macbeth ; it was the grandeur of her emotions as she expressed Lady Macbeth's murderous passions that held her audiences spellbound.

Morrissey talked about the role to criminologists, to draw parallels with real-life serial killers, and focused on Macbeth's status as a war hero and his childless relationship with Lady Macbeth.

The Lady Macbeth's arrival leads to a war breaking out amongst the dominions on the habitat, which ends when they gain a Tyrathca star map, and give the dominions their FTL technology.

Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth appears to be a composite of two separate and distinct personages in Holinshed's work: Donwald's nagging, murderous wife in the account of King Duff, and Macbeth's ambitious wife in the account of King Duncan.

Jenijoy La Belle assesses Lady Macbeth's femininity and sexuality as they relate to motherhood, and witchhood as well.

They are bearded ( 1. 3. 46 ), ( which may also be associated with Lady Macbeth's amenorrhea ).

Advising the impresario of the Lyrique that more time was needed, he took the opportunity to revise the entire opera, in particular by adding music for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Acts 1 and 3 ; the addition of a ballet in Act 3 ; and changing the endings of Acts 3 and 4, in the latter case by dropping Macbeth's aria Mal per me che m ' affidai-" Trusting in the prophecies of Hell " and adding the triumphal choral ending.

" On Macbeth's approach, he demands the sword returned to him quickly.

Then, when Macbeth approaches, Banquo, having had dreams about Macbeth's deeds, takes back his sword as a precaution in this case.

Banquo's other appearance as a ghost during the banquet scene serves as an indicator of Macbeth's conscience returning to plague his thoughts.

Banquo's triumph over death appears symbolically, insofar as he literally takes Macbeth's seat during the feast.

The spirit drains Macbeth's manhood along with the blood from his cheeks ; as soon as Banquo's form vanishes, Macbeth announces: " Why, so ; being gone, / I am a man again.

Scholars arguing that Duncan attends the banquet state that Macbeth's lines to the Ghost could apply equally well to the slain king.

Shakespeare's text states: " Enter Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place.

In 1933 a Russian director named Theodore Komisarjevsky staged a modern retelling of the play ( Banquo and Macbeth were told of their future through palmistry ); he used Macbeth's shadow as the ghost.

Polanski's version also emphasises Banquo's objection to Macbeth's ascendency by showing him remaining silent as the other thanes around him hail Macbeth as king.

King Duncan welcomes and praises Macbeth and Banquo, and declares that he will spend the night at Macbeth's castle at Inverness ; he also names his son Malcolm as his heir.

Banquo's ghost enters and sits in Macbeth's place.

Scholars have seen this change of Shakespeare's as adding to the darkness of Macbeth's crime as the worst violation of hospitality.