ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. The Act III of the Tragedy of Macbeth serves the main purpose of introduction to the play’s climax. The murderers kill Banquo, who dies urging his son to flee and to avenge his death. One of the murderers extinguishes the torch, and in the darkness Fleance escapes.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Act III of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the main purpose of the action is to demonstrate what Macbeth is willing to do to maintain power, killing Banquo, and then to demonstrate how his guilt manifests itself through Macbeth’s hallucinations of Banquo’s ghost.

Detailed explanation-3: -Left alone, Macbeth begins to worry out loud about Banquo. Macbeth knows he’s a good guy, but he also knows that Banquo heard the prophecy. He thinks Banquo might figure things out. Plus there’s the fact that the witches foretold that Banquo’s descendants would one day be kings-not Macbeth’s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The escape of Fleance is the turning point or peripeteia in Macbeth’s tragedy. Banquo’s dying words, ordering Fleance to “revenge, ” remind the audience of the Witches’ prophecy to Banquo: that he will be father to a line of kings, even though he himself will not attain the throne.

Detailed explanation-5: -Macbeth now is completely excited in planning to murder King Duncan and his eagerness is fixed and definite. That quotation above also shows that the three witches give prophecy to Banquo. If Macbeth wants to become a king, he should kill Banquo. An overwhelming ambition drives Macbeth to murder.