The thesis: Banquo is a perfect foil to Macbeth

A foil is a character that follows the same path as the protagonist but makes different decisions. In Macbeth, Shakespeare has made the protagonist Macbeth and Banquo his foil. In the scene where Banquo and Macbeth talk to the three witches which give Macbeth a lot of amazing and exciting prophecies for his future, they also give some to Banquo but instead of thinking a lot about this like Macbeth, he didn't really do much it. He also didn't quite trust the witches as much as Macbeth did, instead we decided to warn Macbeth that even though it sounded amazing what they we saying, it migth lead them to their doom. "...The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with their honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence...".