Macbeth: ACT II Active Reading Notes

• What is the purpose of the character: "Porter"? Is he like a mail person or someone who brings news?

•  It seems that Macduff is a servant to the king who was sent to retrieve the king in the morning and bring him back to his own estate. Was this common?

• Who is Lennox?

• I'm confused why Macbeth confessed the killing of the king to his men. Would they have found out otherwise?

• The Old man in the last seen is Ross's real father? or is he a priest or someone of religious importance.

• 'Gainst nature still!
  Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
  Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like
  The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.' 
• This is showing that Macbeth will not have people on his side, but be shunned and looked at as the murder he is.