With as much as literature and entertainment have evolved in the past 400 years since the honored genius William Shakespeare popularized theatre and genres such as the Tragedy and Comedy, people still remember his work by reading and seeing it performed from time to time. People are even shown techniques he pioneered on his own such as words he invented and comic relief. In the play Macbeth, it has been debated for years about the value of the Porter’s scene and whether or not it is comic relief or if it is part of a more serious situation. Using previous experiences of seeing movies and plays, one can determine that the porter scene was meant for comic relief to lighten up the mood of the audience after learning about the gruesome murder of
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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
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