Banquo

• "My noble partner, you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope"


  "You with present grace" -> Compares Macbeth to a person as a person who is gracious and welcoming, establish Banquo as a loyal friend
• "What can the devil speak true?"


  Rhetorical question -> Shock

  Metaphor of the supernatural as the devil highlights mistrust of the witches and their motives
• The instruments of darkness tell us truths"


  Metaphor -> Shows how the witches will misguide him and Macbeth

  Illustrates Macbeth as foolish

  Witches are agents of chaos
• "In heaven their candles are all out"


  No stars in the sky, abnormal, foreshadows regicide.

  Hyperbole, recognition that something is abnormal
• "In the great hand of God ... I fight off treasonous malice"


  Outrage, contrasts Macbeth

  Banquo is no corrupted -> Lacks Ambition, horrified by violation of the Divine Right Of Kings

  Declarative, emphasises horror
• "I fear thou playd'st most foully for it"


  Fricative alliteration echoes witches

  Banquo has doubt, linking Macbeth to the witches