FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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He is weeping about his dead realtives
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He is joking around and acting like the gatekeeper of the underworld
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He is delivering a serious sermon
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He is telling tales of how they all are damned
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Detailed explanation-1: -How is the Porter speaking of death when he first appears on stage? He is telling knock-knock jokes about death. What did Lennox tell Macbeth about the night of Duncan’s murder? He was kept awake by strange noises and lamentations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Porter is the gate-keeper to the Macbeth’s castle, and jokes about being the keeper to ‘the gates of hell’. He’s a very heavy drinker, and provides important comic relief amidst the play’s intense tragic momentum.
Detailed explanation-3: -The knocking continues, but the porter does not immediately open the door. Instead, he plays a game with himself in which he imagines himself as the porter of hell and jokes about the kind of sinners he might let in.
Detailed explanation-4: -The significance of the Porter within Macbeth is twofold. Primarily, the Porter functions as comic relief by lessening the tension in the audience following the murder of King Duncan. The Porter also functions thematically by indicating that the gates to Macbeth’s home are synonymous to the gates of hell.