Banquo: Character Quotes

Question 1

Banquo soliloquy opening of the scene:
1. Macbeth’s prophecies have come true.
Banquo is suspicious of M.

2. M’s success is a good omen for Banquo

Answer 1

“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
as the weird women promised; and I fear
thou played’st most foully for’t

May they not be my oracles as well,
and set me up in hope?

Question 2

Prophecy for Banquo.

Answer 2

“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater”
“Not so happy, yet much happier”
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none”
First, second, third witch.

Question 3

Idea of supernatural.
Reference to the witches.
Banquo when the witches leave, in disbelief

Answer 3

“What, can the devil speak true?”

Banquo.

Question 4

Banquo’s view on the witches prophecies.

One of the deepest truths in the play.

Answer 4

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray ‘s in deepest consequence”

Banquo