Macbeth Banquo Changes

Throughout the play Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have seen many changes within themselves. In the beginning, Macbeth was friends with Banquo. He stuck through what happened with the witches and throughout meeting the king but after that, he saw him as an enemy when Banquo did not do anything to provoke him. Macbeth turned into a sour, arrogant man with only the intentions of keeping himself and his title safe. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth was bitter about her gender and how everyone would look at her and immediately assume she was innocent and fragile. She wanted to be seen as an equal to the men. Throughout the Acts, however, she went from giving approval to, and even almost forcing, Macbeth to kill Duncan to not being satisfied with him wanting to kill Banquo. She thought that if he put what they did to Duncan in the back of his mind that all would be well. In Act 3 lines 15-20, Macbeth invites Banquo to a banquet. When he does, Banquo calls him “your highness,” which gives the impression that Banquo and Macbeth most likely were not as close as they seemed in the beginning. Banquo’s attitude towards Macbeth changed so drastically that it was easy to speculate that Banquo could tell how much Macbeth had changed already. The theme of the play goes along with the changing
that went over Macbeth. “Fair is fowl, fowl is fair.” Act 1 line 12. The start of the play made Macbeth out to be a noble, kind man but by the end, Macbeth was, as the theme states, fowl. Lady Macbeth was the biggest nudge that Macbeth had for intentions to kill Duncan.
She wanted Macbeth to be king so badly that she was willing for either of them to go to whatever lengths it would take to get there. In Act 3 Scene 2 lines 31-38, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth “...unsafe the while that we must lave our honors in these flattering streams, and make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” She is not happy with what he tells her and tells him to stop talking like that. She believes that he should be happy with what he has and stop allowing things to torment him. Again, the theme “fair is fowl, fowl is fair,” is able to describe Lady Macbeth’s change,
too. In the end, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth almost, but not quite, switched places. Macbeth became maleficent whereas Lady Macbeth was content and worrisome. Macbeth did not want to lose the crown once he received it and continuously decided that hurting people was the best option to keep it. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are fairly alike in personalities but in the way they deal with situations, they are complete opposites.