Blood Different imagery are seen through out the play one of the imagery is blood. In Macbeth by William Shakespear in every scene the image of blood changes, it changes through re mores, bravery, and guilt. The characters affected by all of this is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth since they are the ones with blood in their hands. The imagery of blood seen’s to effected all the characters in the play. One that is affected by all of this is Lady Macbeth, when she is found sleepwalking and talking to herself after the murder of Duncan and Banquo, ‘ Here the smell of blood still. All the perfume of A radia will not sweeten this little hands’ (5.
1. 53-55) Shakespear by use of blood makes Lady Macbeth goes crazy by the actions that she has done. Makes it obvious that being evil brings unhappiness and guilt of what she has done in the past. At the beginning Lady Macbeth starts all of this by asking the spirits to, ‘make thick my blood’ (1.
5. 50) She asking them to make her remorseless and wrong for the actions that is about to do. She did not have the control over had own conscience since she has remorse and guilt over her actions, but it is all ready too late since she has gone crazy and paranoid of blood being on her hands. Macbeth in the other hand has not yet gone crazy, but at the beginning the captain said, ‘ Which smoked with bloody election’ (1. 2.
20) Shakespear uses blood in a whole different way. This time the meaning of blood is of the brave fighter that Macbeth is with the bloody sword he has of his enemies in the battle he fought. This time is shown as a action in which has nothing to do with beginning evil but as a fighter of a country. Macbeth does not shows his true self to his wife and hides in his words he speaks of guilt.
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‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean for my hands?’ (2. 2. 78-79) Macbeth wonders if he will ever forgive his own actions. At the banquet it is when Macbeth shows a little of his guilt of killing Banquo, since his ghost appears to him as a sign of guilt. Shakespear makes this imagery of blood as guilt almost the same as Lady Macbeth and her re mores.
Shakespear makes the imagery of blood have different meaning by giving it different meanings it makes the play even better. For Macbeth and Lady Macbeth blood will never change since they wanted to mess with it in the first place. But at the end blood is blood and only crazy people who think that they can actually get what they want by killing every one in there path, they are wrong because every one has a conscience remorse and guilt.
