Banquo's Perplexity In Macbeth

Subsequently, an additional way that the visions and ghosts that Macbeth comes across represents his own perplexity and internal guilt, comes about in Act III, Scene IV (Shakespeare et. al. 220) after Macbeth has prearranged the assassination of his friend Banquo. Macbeth notices the ghost of Banquo sitting in Macbeth’s place at the banquet. Seeing that no other person at the banquet is able to see the ghost of Banquo, its emergence appears to be a simple creation of Macbeth’s guilty mind, “Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee” (Shakespeare et. al. 224). Macbeth utters this line to the ghost because he does not wish to see the ghost of Banquo, presumably because of the guilt that Macbeth feels for arranging the assassination of