Act 2, Scene 3

Act 2, Scene 3

1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

   • contrasts
   • Roles switched

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3. Comic relief

   • ligthen mood after intense ones previous
     • traditional, laugh before more tension arrives
       • strange though
   • characters familiar to Macbeth's audience
     • farmer
       • keeps all grain to self, doesn't give to those in need as he thinks he will get better money
         • next harvest is plentiful, his prices plummet
     • equivacater
       • deception and reality
       • gun powder plot, hanged for purgery. was good at decieving
     • porter exits
       • Macbeth arrives as he leaves
         • When he speaks to Lennox and Ross, he has shorts sentences, contrast to before, long monologues and soliquoy,
           • has to be careful about what he says because he might mess up and reveal self
             • only speaks more when they find that Duncan is dead
               • only time in whole play that he is not deceiving anyone or lying
               • "Had i but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time"

4. Language