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Macbeth- act 2: scene 3 - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth- act 2: scene 3
The Porter scene is meant to act as the chorus of the play, like in many Greek tragedies. While the scene doesn't contribute to the play's action, it gives it a a type of self-aware and comedic commentary
"faith, here's an equivocator"
Throughout the play, Macbeth and Macduff beoth equivocate for their actions in different ways
"who committed treason enough for Gods sake, yet could not equivocate to Heaven"
This is a contemporary reference to the gunpowder plot but could also be self-aware dramatic irony over Macbeth's rule of Scotland destroys it and he damns himself to Hell
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During the conversation between Macduff, Lennox and Macbeth, Macbeth remains quite as he is fearful that he would say something and reveal his guilt over a crime that isn't yet discovered
"oh horror, horror, horror"
The state of shock Macduff experiences when discovering Duncan's body shows the respect he had for him, which makes his death more tragic for the audience
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Throughout this scene, Macbeth is duplicitous and pretends to not know what is going on
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Macduff's speech is very disjointed and rushed, shown by Shakespeare using caesuras to break up the flow of the speech and create obvious emotion
"downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look upon death itself"
'Downy sleep' suggests a soft, peaceful version of death but Duncan's was violent and dark
"from your graves, rise up"
Contextually, Tudors would sleep sitting up so people didn't mistake them for being dead
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"had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd belssed time"
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"o, yet I do repent me of my fury that I did kill them"
Macbeth uses emotive and Biblical language to rid him of what he did btu admitting that he killed the guards with wrath (one of the seven deadly sins) to appear as though he did it out of love for Duncan, as to avoid blame
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