MACBETH
Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,
Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.
Macbeth,William Shakespeare,Act3.4 76-84
Macbeth see the ghost of Banquo, which no one else sees, and goes into rage about how murders use to be silent and now he is being haunted. Though it isn’t for sure if he is going insane or if he truly sees a ghost, but whatever the case he appears insane to his peers lessening his grip on his power. His deadly plots that he tried to conceal from others is finally coming to light and his conscious won’t let him ignore it. he is now headed down a slipper slop where he will just another fallen king as was King Edward II.
