Macbeth+Project++-+Sydney+T+-+letter+from+character+5+years+later

Dear Fleance,

How are you son? I've been terribly worried about you. I know it must be strange, receiving a letter from your dead father, but I feel very guilty about how we left things, and I need to clear my conscience. When the murderers came for us that night, I put you in serious danger, and I left you fatherless. But I should have known Macbeth was behind everything. You see, I was there when the witches gave us the prophecies: one said that Macbeth would be thane of Cawdor and king, and the other said that my children will be king. I should have noticed Macbeth's craving for power back then, and maybe things may have been different. He kept pressing those weird sisters for information about exactly how these things would come to pass, and I was too blind to notice! But even later, right after Macbeth murdered our good king Duncan (3.1.1), when I was still alive and capable of putting an end to the Macbeth's schemes, I had suspicions that I failed to act upon. I've failed you son, and I' m sorry. I hope you grow up to be a fine young man, and who knows, maybe the witches were right, and maybe you will be next in line for the throne.

With much love in life and in death, Banquo

P.S. (I may not have stopped Macbeth, but I sure did haunt him out of his wits!)

I wanted to have this letter written from Banquo to Fleance, so Banquo can tell his side of the story. I imagined Banquo feeling guilty for not stopping Macbeth when they had their first encounter with the witches. And in the next act, when he had his suspicions of what Macbeth had done (3.1.1-10), and did nothing to stop him. I also assumed that Banquo would feel guilty for leaving his son fatherless after Banquo's murder, so he wanted to explain what was going on to lead up to his untimely death, and what he could have done to stop it. And I thought that maybe Banquo felt foolish for doing nothing while he was alive, so when he haunted Macbeth at their royal feast, that was Banquo making up for all of the times he could have stop the Macbeth's.
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