The Banquet scene

ort path to rebellion against him:
             "Avaunt, and quit my sight, let the earth hide thee!
             Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
             Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
             If I were one of the lords at the table, I definitely would think Macbeth to be insane; he was rude, by talking to the murderer; he was shouting at a chair; and also he seemed to admit that he was mad, by saying that he had "a strange infirmity".
             Macbeth also noted that Macduff was not at the gathering of lords:
             "How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person
             This shows that Macduff is either distrusting of Macbeth, fears him, or both. Macduff earlier said that instead of going to the investing ceremony;
             Macd. No cousin, I'll to Fife." *
             Macbeth also has a change in relationship with his wife during this scene, it shows the beginnings of breakdown for Lady Macbeth's mental health. First she starts off strongly, rebuking the disturbance caused by Macbeth's primary outburst at "seeing" Banquo's ghost:
             "Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus,
             And hath been from his youth. Pray you keep seat
             The fit is momentary, upon a thought
             * n.b Scone is where new kings become crowned, Macduff is the Thane of Fife, therefore he has his family, castle and he thinks safety.
             But controlling that situation took up most of her commanding ability and when Macbeth has his second outburst, her strength begins to waver:
             "I pray you speak not; he grows worse and worse.
             Question enrages him. At once, good night.
             Stand not upon the order of your going.
             In many dramatizations of "Macbeth" Lady Macbeth seems drained of strength after the lord's exit of this scene. Although you would expect her to berate him like she has done many times before:
             Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
             And wakes it now to look so green and pale
             At what it did so freely? From...

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