FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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Fleance will soon die
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Macbeth was successful at ending Banquo’s line of descendants
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Banquo’s descendants would eventually be kings
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Banquo is still alive and plotting to overthrow Macbeth
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Detailed explanation-1: -Macbeth kills Banquo because he sees Banquo as another threat to the throne. In the Witches’ original prophecy, they proclaim that Macbeth will be king but that Banquo’s son and descendants will be the future kings, while Banquo will never be king himself.
Detailed explanation-2: -The show of eight kings are all ancestors of James I, from Banquo’s line down to James’ grandfather.
Detailed explanation-3: -These apparitions instruct Macbeth to beware Macduff but reassure him that no man born of woman can harm him and that he will not be overthrown until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eight kings appear walking in a line, the eighth holding a mirror, and all of them followed by Banquo’s ghost. Macbeth, furious at this sign that Banquo’s heirs will get the throne, demands answers. But Hecate mocks him and the witches vanish.
Detailed explanation-5: -When Macbeth returns to the witches later in the play, they show him an apparition of the murdered Banquo, along with eight kings of his family, descending through Fleance. King James, on the throne when Macbeth was written, was the ninth Stuart king.