Act 2, Scene 3: “Knock Knock who’s there?

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Present
1. Macbeth repeats the words ‘foul is fair’.
2. The witches predict that Macbeth will be the thane of Cawdor
and King and that Banquo’s son will become king after
Macbeth.
3. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan by insulting his
masculinity and calling him a coward.
4. After the murder, Macbeth brings the daggers back with him
instead of leaving them in the guards hands.
5. Stichomythia is when two actors share lines in scenes that are
normally supposed to be seen as panicked and hectic.
Purpose
 How can we interpret the Porter’s speech in Act 2 Scene 3?
 What do we learn about the characters, based on their reaction
to Duncan’s death?
Present
Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose
and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of
contemporary politics and other topical issues
Bathos: an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in
mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
Practice
The purpose of the Porter’s speech is to utilize some comedy to
contrast the previous frantic scene and to portray the types of
people there are in the world.
The description Lennox gives of the night creates the atmosphere of
unease because it develops the idea of the divine order being
corrupted more by describing how ‘the night has been unruly’ and
being able to hear ‘strange screams of death’.