Kiana Dabay Block 4 Dec.

11, 2013

Lennoxs Words

In Act II, scene III, Lennox describes the night as chaotic. The context of this scene is that Duncan just died. Before we analyze this part of the text, we need to know that Lady Macbeth called for the bad spirits to support her to kill Duncan so that he would be the king. The night before this scene Duncan visited Macbeths castle, then the murder happened. Shakespeare made Lennox say that, People are saying they heard cries of grief. Lennox also says, Strange screams of death and terrible voice predicting catastrophes. The words cries of grief and screams of death make the audience feel fearful because it is uncommon to hear cries of grief and scream of death during at night, especially if many people from different houses heard it. This description gives the scene a fearful mood. This mood is important for the play because all the good times might be over and now people of Scotland might have a dark future.