One scene in this play that I found joyful was the scene with the drunk porter that decides to play the porter of hell. He does this after the big celebration and after Macbeth had killed the King.
When he hears knocking at the gate he begins to play his little game and allows different people in. Shakespeare did something with this scene without even doing it. A line that he could have used was something like
“A highly praised lord that rose up in rank,
With delusions of grandeur picks his blade
And kills his king in the night with distain
If you didn’t regret it then, you will
Satan has a spot on his rack for you”
he didn’t need to say it to inply it and I think it was an amazing thing he did there.
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