One such person he mentioned was, “here’s an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose: come in tailor. Here you may roast your goose.” While all his ignorant ranting is going on, Macduff and Lennox are knocking on the door time after time awaiting the Porter’s answer when it is apparently fueling his anger. The audience listening to the fuss of one who has lost his mind would create comical relief because since this play was written during the time of the Enlightenment when education was becoming a required necessity and more people were become literate, to the educated and wealthy (who attended these live plays), the actions and behavior of the literate were found to be very hysterical and could be compared to watching chimps play around in their natural habitat. Once again, using an appeal to logic, his drunkenness made him act this foolishly which in turn made him act like a brainless oaf that in the end was very funny to the …show more content…
This proves that the Porter’s scene had both the values of comical relief and the intensity of tragedy. Now to seal the claim that the scene is both comical and tense, think of his comical drunkenness and the terrible messages he gives during his hangover. After all, a drama like this would not have been as great as it was without putting 2 eggs into one