Act 3 scene 1-4

Act 3 Scene 1- 4 Darkness
Pg 112 – Banquo – “I must becom a borrower of the night for a dark hour or twain.”
Pg 120 – Macbeth – “…must embrace the fate of that dark hour.”
Pg 120 – Macbeth – “ Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out to-night.”
Pg 124 – Macbeth – “ere to black Hecate’s summons…. Hath rung night’s yawning peal…”
Pg 126 – Macbeth – “Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day…”
“Light thickens…”
“Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.”
Pg 130 – Banquo – “It will rain tonight.”
Pg 140 – Macbeth – “Hence, horrible shadow!”

Scenes 1-4 is mostly about the death of Banquo, which in itself is very dark, because it is Macbeth moving forward with more murders by killing his friend. Macbeth hires people to kill Banquo for him. This if for a few reasons, if he killed him it would be very suspicious, also Banquo was his friend and even though Macbeth is unhinged he still has a little bit of light in him that keeps him from doing the killing himself. This little light is what drives his guilt as it gets crushed by the darkness, that he keeps taking on. Which as we have already seen his guilt is driving him mad. After Banquo is dead the murders report to Macbeth of Banquo’s death and the escape of Fleance. Shortly after this Macbeth is ‘visited’ by the gohst of Banquo while at the feast. Macbeth though able to kill can not handle the crushing after effect of guilt.