Macbeth

Macbeth “Trace the Use of Blood Imagery Throughout the Play and Discuss it’s Significance” Throughout the story of Macbeth blood plays a sickening yet significant role. Blood is used as a symbol of guilt, but is also used to signify death. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is showed to be a faithful knight who could do no wrong, but as his days continued he proved to be a man obsessed with the future. Unfortunately, his future involved many disgraceful things including murder upon murder. Macbeth’s first murder is the first time we see the significant use of blood. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth says this, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand' No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” (II, ii, 59-62) Macbeth is feeling his guilt and believes that this “blood” will never be washed from his hands. The blood he is referring to is not only the actual blood but the guilt he is facing. The blood in this situation is used to signify Macbeth’s guilt. Another instance of the blood, macbeth, guilt, death, time, symbol, play, murder, man, been, strength, story, signify, significant, shed, second, role, proved, macduff, iv, imagery, ii, hand, great, future, first, ere, bloody, believes, apparition, after, yet, wrong, woman