Equivocation and the minor characters

• The "Porter scene" (2.3): comic tension
  • The Equivocator
• The Witches
  • "Fair is foul and foul is fair" (1.1.10)
  • Men or women?
  • Macbeth visits them again: the prophecies (4.1)
• Images: masks and clothes
  • "There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face" (1.4.11-12)

  • New honors upon him,
    Like our strange [new] garments, cleave not to their mold
    But with the aid of use.
            (1.3.144-146)
    
    Now does he [Macbeth] feel his title
    Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
    Upon a dwarfish thief.
            (5.2.20-22)

• Malcolm: what kind of ruler?
  • Paints himself as worse than Macbeth (4.3.60-63, 76-80, 97-100)
  • -- then contradicts himself (4.3.125-30)
• The ending: closed or open? What lies ahead?