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5. Banquo and Macbeth both get exciting prophecies from the witches, but they react in very different ways. How do their reactions reflect their different personalities and ambitions? How do they act toward each other after the prophecies?

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Even though Macbeth seems "rapt withal" (1.3.60) about the witches' prophecies, Banquo is skeptical of the witches and their prophecies. Banquo thinks that the witches might be "instruments of darkness" (1.3.134) sent by the devil to deceive him and Macbeth and do them harm. Banquo even tests the witches by asking them to make prophecies for him. Two of their prophecies are ambiguous, and the third prophecy ultimately proves to be false when Duncan's descendent, not Banquo's, becomes king.

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5. Banquo and Macbeth both get exciting prophecies from the witches, but they react in very different ways. How do their reactions reflect their different personalities and ambitions? How do they act toward each other after the prophecies?