Macduff
Macduff takes Macbeth's place at the banquet in the play "Macbeth." Macbeth had planned to sit at the head of the table but gets unsettled by Banquo's ghost, so Macduff takes his place instead.
Macbeth sees the ghost of the recently murdered Banquo.
In Act 3 Scene 4, a banquet was prepared in the aftermath of the coronation of Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] at Scone. All of the guests were gathered around the banquet table. But Banquo and his son Fleance were missing. Banquo was lying on the ground in the nearby park. His throat had been slit by three murderers whom Macbeth had hired to kill his friend and fellow General. Fleance had escaped the same fate. But Banquo's ghost made it to the banquet. He was invisible to all but Macbeth. Instead of taking his own seat, he presumed to take Macbeth's.
Macbeth sees a vision of Banquo's ghost sitting in his place at the banquet table. He becomes visibly disturbed and comments that only he can see the ghost, implying that his guilt and paranoia are manifesting as hallucinations.
Banquo's ghost does not speak at the banquet in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Instead, it appears uninvited and startles Macbeth by sitting in his place at the table. Macbeth, being the only one who can see the ghost, reacts with horror and guilt to its presence.
One example of dramatic irony during Macbeth's banquet in Act 3 is when Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost seated at the table, but none of the other guests can see it. This creates tension as Macbeth's reaction to the ghost reveals his guilt, while the other characters remain unaware of the reason for his distress.
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In Shakespeare's play, MacBeth (1606), Banquo was a Scottish thane (roughly speaking, baron) whose murder was arranged by his former friend, MacBeth, an army general obsessed with becoming king, paranoid about the competition, and rapidly becoming insane through guilt over all the people he's killed to get his own way. MacBeth's wife shares and surpasses his ambition for power, and also goes mad.The murdered Banquo's ghost appears to MacBeth during a banquet: the ghost comes into the room and sits in MacBeth's chair, which terrifies him. None of the guests can see Banquo, so they understandably consider MacBeth is becoming mentally unstable when he stops eating and argues at length with an empty seat.Learned people argue about who Banquo was, whose ghost was it really, did the ghost really appear, and so on, quite forgetting that the play MacBeth isn't an attempt by Shakespeare to record history but simply his use of words in order to tell an exciting story, using bits of history and supposed history as a background, and to explore human nature in frequently uncomfortable depth.It's still just a story, and in the story the ghost isBanquo's and it does come into the banquet and doesproceed to sit in MacBeth's chair.The word banquet has nothing to do with Banquo who was considered by many, in Shakespeare's time and still today, to be a Scottish historical figure. Banquet comes from a French word for bench, as in a table for food. Maybe Banquo's name suggested the ghostly banquet scene to Shakespeare; only the writer knows for sure.
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A meal laid out on a long table is often referred to as a "feast" or a "banquet".