Shakespeare: Banquo's Letter.

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Gemma Quirolo

Shakespeare: Banquo’s Letter

To my dearest Fleance,

                                    I have left you this letter to help to protect you. As you know from reading this letter, I am no longer in this world. Remember please that I love you, and I am trying to protect you with this letter, so read it with great care.

You should know that Macbeth and I were very close friends, but we drifted apart after our victory against Norway.

It started on the battlefield after the war, we met three witches. I am not a superstitious man, but Macbeth is, and because I knew this I thought that he might believe what they said. They said “all hail, Macbeth, Thane of Glamis”, after the battle he already had that title, so that made sense. But then they said “all hail Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor” and “all hail Macbeth, who shalt be king hereafter”. This puzzled me because me because Macbeth only had the first title, and he couldn’t have any of the others because Duncan and the Thane of Cawdor were still alive.

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Not long after our meeting with the witches, Rosse and Angus arrived and told us the news. The captain had called Macbeth brave, and said that Macbeth should have that title. Macbeth was to be Thane of Cawdor as the last Thane was trusted by the king, but was executed for he had a traitor’s title. Macbeth was puzzled at first, for he thought that the Thane still lived, Then, once we had heard that he was a traitor, I saw a gleam in Macbeth’s eyes. I knew that he was taking the witches prophecies seriously. He said that he ...

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