Act 2 Scene 3 MACBETH Flashcards
Summary (1)
-The knocking from the previous scenes continues and the Porter goes to open the gate . He imagines he is the porter of Hell . He lets Macduff and Lennox in .
-Pretending to be aowken by the knocking , Macbeth arrives to greet them , Macduff asks to be led ot the king .
-Macduff discoevers the murder and returns proclaiming reason as Macduff calls the alarm , Macbeth nd Lennox rush to see Duncan .
Summary (2)
-Lady Macbeth appears , then Banquo . Both are informed of the murder .
-Macbeth returns and beomans the dreadful deed , Lennox suggets that hte guards may have been responsible for killing Duncan , but Macbet confseses he killed them .
Summary (3)
-macduff questions this action ,a nd Macbwth proclaims his lvoe for Duncan . Lady Macbeth faints , distracting attention .
-Banquo says that hhey msut question the mduer . Malcolm and Donaldblain decide to flee , suspecting treachery of someone closel related .
Why is this scene imporrtant ?
-Shakespeare anticipates the horror of Macbeth’s rein ; the ‘hell’ the porter mentions in (lines 1 , 17 ) later becomes a reality ..
-The audience already know that the mnurder has been committed this delay in its discovery heightens the tension .
Why is this scene important (2)
-The themes of murder and deception re developed ; the innocent guards are murdered to cover up the first crime .
-Malolm and Donldbain;s escape will provide justriication for Macbeth’s coronation .
-Howvee , it also means that he wears th crown uneasily , knowing they are laive ad plototing agisnt him ‘sleep no mrmoe
Key Structure ; COMIC RELIEF
-The bleak intensity of the previous scene gives way to brief comic interlude . The proter is crude and rough and Shakespeare introudces him to make us laugh .
-Hwever , his role also performs other key funciton s.
-The continued knocking remidns us taht we are still in the world where the Macbwths commit murder
Key language ; HELL
-Much of the language in this scene is linked to the ideas of hll , implying that the murder of the king has turned the castle into an underworld .
-the porter reers to ‘hell agte ; and asls ‘Who;s there l’thname of Bezebub wihch is he deil ‘
-Lennox describes the night as unruly in which the ‘lamentinngs’ adn ‘strnage screams o death’ seem hellish .
KEY LANGAUGE HELL (2)
-earlier refereneces to a ‘serpent’ and a ‘chalice’ could suggest that the devil has entered Macbeth .
-Later , Macduff will refer to Macbeth as a ‘devil’ ina ct four , SHakespeare seems to sugget therei s a ell wherver Macbeth os .
TOP TIP , ALL THE THEMES ARE PRESEN TIN THIS SCENE – DECEPTION , MURDER , DISTRUST , MUDER , FER , AND FLIGHT
mR BRUFF opening
-comic relief , porter says in this scne that reflects the actual events on the other side of the gate .
-the image he used nd thm themes of his speech are ones we see often thorught the play . COMMON TH READ BETWEEN TH STOORIES IS THEY ARE ALL DEEDS WHICH OULD CONDEMN THEM TO HELL - forshwdoing Macbeth sfate as he commited reficide .
porters stories
-farmer keeps grain to hismlef other stravign .
-nect framrms whose price o rgin plumment sruins him .
-nxt equivocator , INTERESTING - as it relats to the theme of turth and deception int the play . Although he was xlever and got out of one thing , in the end he went ot ohell . Showing Macbeths unescapable fate .
OPENING
Macbeth who had time to wash his hands and change his clogothes , talking to Macduff and Lennox but MB REPLEIS IN SHORT BIREF SENTENCES . - ,a s htis a very strong contrast with the MB who speaks in greta long monologues and SOLILOQUIES MACBETH IS BEING TACITURN
-Shzkepsre is using the best lnguage as a reflection oof his state of mind , in all his speech , he msut be carefulw ith what he says eotuehr equivocate or lie right out . so hsi speech becomes low nd brief thoruhgout .
-ONLY AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEATH OF DUNCAN , does MB tlak normally again
-interesting as the way MB is feling in the fternath if the disocveryis the only tie in the play , where hs int hiding how he feels or is tryign to decieve anyoen .
‘had i died but a n horu before i would have lives a blessed life ‘ which is gture , form this point HE IS DOOMED , foredhadoing the dkarkevents ahead of him .
-Macbeth ELOQUENTLY descrives why he killed the gaurds and death of duncan . and about the death of DDuncan , a depatrue from his original plan . which makes him suspicious , but LMB comes ot his rescue ,a nd FAINTS to tke attention of him .
IRONY
‘IT WAS A ROUGH NIGHT ;
REFERECNE OT HHE CHAIN OF BEING ‘LRD ANOITED TEMPLE ‘ DUNCAN DEAD .
-CHOIIC , CATATPHCI EVEN T.
lmb
-Lady Macbeth is actiling like a streotypical women in the Jacobean Era , change in character as she is feeble in the masucline world . ‘O gentle ld , tis not for you to har what I can spea ‘
-lady Maceth is put in her place owen cant cope and isnt strong enoguh to handle devatsayitng news like this .
macbeth contrasts to other characters
-After annoucing Duncan’s death , he is exxagerting his emotions and how much anger he feelars .
ELOQENTLY DESCIRIING HOW DUNAN WAS KILLED , nd being veyr metaphorical . highling Macbeth is flusuured ‘his gash’d stbas looked like a breach in anutre’
-breach in nature shows the imbalance which makes him suspicious .
SO LMB FIANTS TO TAKE ATNETION OF MACBEHT OVETHE TOP AND CYRING .
