https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/opmlggj75u41 Cooperative Learning en-us 2017-11-04 15:57:09 UTC 2017-11-28 17:08:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/opmlggj75u41/wish/203645165 Macduff and Lennox enter
Macduff: have you gone therefore so late in bed old mate, to stay asleep?
Portier: we toasted, gentleman, in truth, until the second cockcrow; and drinking, is known to cause three things.
Macduff: and which?
Portier: well gentleman: (cause) red nose, big desire to sleep and to pee.
Lust provokes it and doesn't ; because it provokes, rather, the desire, but it prevents then the execution of it.
It can be said therefore that the exceeding in wine has a good time to tangle it, the lust; it does it and no, it picks up and makes it fall.
ln conclusion it makes him sleep with a lie and then it leaves.
Macduff: I think it deceived you,last night.
Portier: it did it , gentleman; but I answered it as it deserved; and because I was much stronger than it, as I believe, sometimes I win on it.
Macduff: is your gentleman awake?
Macbeth enters
Our knock-knock woke him up:here he is.

Comment

Macduff and the portier are chatting about the side effects of wine. The portier sustains that the alcohol cause 3 things nose-painting, sleep and urine. He also thinks that drinking provoke and destroy lust: during his speech he explains the concept with a lot of metaphors and body humor.
In the middle of the conversation, Macbeth enters in the scene because Macduff's knock-knock woke him up.

Lucrezia Cossu


]]> 2017-11-05 16:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/opmlggj75u41/wish/203645165 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/opmlggj75u41/wish/203677485 A knock sounds offstage. A gatekeeper enters

PORTER
(Drunk) What a lot of knocking! If a man were a gatekeeper for the gates of hell, he'd sure have to turn the key to open that gate often.

A knock sounds offstage...

Knock, knock, knock! (as if he's that gatekeeper in hell)Who's there, in the name of the devil? Perhaps a farmer who hanged himself because he'd hoarded grain in hopes of charging high prices during a famine that never came. (speaking to the farmer) You've come at a good time. Make sure you have a lot of handkerchiefs, because you're going to sweat a lot here in Hell.

A knock sounds offstage...

Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's name? Ah, it's some slick schemer who vowed his support to two opposing sides, who committed treason in the name of God, but found in the end that you can't lie to God about your actions. Come in, schemer.

A knock sounds offstage...

Knock, knock, knock! Who's there? Perhaps it's an English tailor who stinted on the amount of fabric needed to make pants in the French baggy style. Come in, tailor. You can heat your pressing iron up in the fires of hell, since you're done for.

A knock sounds offstage...

Knock, knock! Never stopping. Who are you? Well, this place is too cold to be hell. I'll stop playing at being the devil's gatekeeper. I'd wanted to let into hell someone who'd given in to temptation from each of the professions.

A knock sounds offstage...

Coming! Coming! And please don't forget to tip.

The PORTER opens the gate.

Comment:
In the first lines of the scene number 3, Shakespeare tells of a porter who has drunk too much and for this reason he starts to fantasize.
At the beginning someone keeps knocking, then the noise 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. In conclusion, he decides to stop because of the arrival of two characters: Lennox and Macduff. 
After the bloody imagery and dark tone of the previous two scenes, the porter’s comedy comes as a jarring change of tone. His good-natured joking with Macduff breaks up the mounting tension of the play and also comments obliquely on its themes. Unlike all the characters of noble birth, who speak in iambic verse, the porter speaks in prose. His relaxed language seems to signal that his words and his role are less important than those of the other characters, but in his merry banter the porter hits on many truths. His description of the confusion and lust provoked by alcohol caricatures Macbeth’s moral confusion and lust for power.

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