Macbeth - Do You Consider the Banquet Scene (act 3 Scene 4) to Be the Turning Point of Macbeths Career?

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Do you consider the supper scene (act 3 scene 4) to be the turning point of macbeths career?

The scene shows a perceptible degeneration of Macbeth's mental powers which is the inevitable consequence of his fatal deeds. It is the crisis of the play where the reversal of Macbeth's fortune begins and the negative prophesies of the witches manifest. The scene records Macbeth's guilty conscience taking the most horrible form in the shape of Banquo's ghost. It also shows Macbeth's gradual overcoming of the qualms of conscience and leads to Lady Macbeth realizing this, causing the subliminal guilt that begins to fill her (sleepwalking scene) that ultimately results in her suicide.

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