Macbeth: Banquet Scene

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This Macbeth is a man who is rapidly passing out of the range of sympathy. However, when the murderer reports that Fleance has managed to escape, safety eludes his grasp, and fear again seizes him. Against this life force of feasting, social friendliness and order, comes a death, a ghost smashing life forms with phantasms of evil and guilt, an unreality, a nothing, like the air drawn dagger creating chaos of order and reality...
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It is the conquest of the real and the life giving by the unreal and deathly. Macbeth has not murdered Banquo with his own hands but has procured it, because there is some strange notion in his mind that the thought of a dead man will not haunt him this time like that of Duncan if the deed is done by some other hands...
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