13. What four things did the witches show Macbeth? What does each show/say? What is Macbeth's reaction?…
7.How do the difficult attitudes of Macbeth and his wife to their bloodstained hands serve to point up the basic difference in their characters?…
Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood in MacBeth to represent treason, guilt, murder and death. These ideas are constant throughout the book. There are many examples of blood representing these three ideas in the book.…
Throughout Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, the motif of blood is a reoccurring motif. Blood is used everywhere in Macbeth, the beginning in the battle field scenes all the way to the very end. The words ‘bloody’ and ’blood’ are repeated on almost every page. This draws importance to the motif. The motif of blood plays an important factor in the framework of a major theme. It leads us into the theme of guilt, which is how Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth feel throughout the whole play. It also is used to portray other characteristics such as bravery and treason. We see that this motif develops and changes use throughout the play.…
Guilt is a frustrating feeling; it evokes regret, self-punishment, and shame. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do not know it, but every time they murder, their guilt increases, and they step closer to their downfall. Shakespeare uses the imagery of blood in Macbeth to illustrate the inevitable guilt of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and how their roles change by the end of the play.…
Throughout the play “Macbeth” William Shakespeare uses many motifs to emphasize themes and develop the plot. One major motif, blood, is used to symbolize heroism and power as well as corruption and evil. As events play out in the story, the title character and his wife both become progressively more unscrupulous and their immoral acts begin to weigh on their conscious. In “Macbeth”, Shakespeare utilizes blood as a motif to illustrate the increasing guilt Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer as a result of their violent and manipulative actions.…
“but all’s too weak; / For brave Macbeth, – well he deserves that name, / Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, / Which smok’d with bloody execution, / Like / valour’s minion carv’d out his passage / Till he fac’d the slave.”…
Blood usually represents death and killing especially throughout Macbeth. In the play there are many places where blood is used to create vivid scenes in the audience's head. One example of this imagery is when Shakespeare writes “Enter Macbeth with bloody daggers” (Shakespear 55). This occurred right after Macbeth had killed Duncan. This illustrates to the audience the killing and the bloody aftermath. It shows how it immediately changed Macbeth. His thirst for power disregarded his morals and caused him to kill an innocent man just so that he could wear the crown.…
- This third use of hand is slightly different than the first two. In this passage, Macbeth speaks of a vision of a dagger he sees, he uses his hand to clarify where the dagger…
I Lady Macbeth, am not worthy of such masculine attributes do not prove myself worthy. O’ sweet Lord have mercy on me, blood remains on my hands staining my cold heart. Not a lone drop washes away and as I scrub harder my blood merges with the blood of the innocent. Forgive my desire for power; forgive my sins and the fatalities of my desires. Let my heart be whole again, if thy had not push my weak husband into such an atrocity. T’was not me who had framed and killed those caring men whose only purpose was to serve the king. I did not thrust bloody dagger within King Duncan’s beating…
Lady Macbeth then proceeds to comfort him by suggesting that a little water will wash it away.…
"What bloody man is that?" in these, the opening words of the play's second scene, King Duncan asks about a sergeant. The sergeant then tells the story of Macbeth's heroic victories over Macdonwald and the King of Norway. The sergeant's telling of the story is in itself heroic, because his loss of blood has made him weak. Thus his blood and his heroism seem to enhance the picture of Macbeth as a hero. As Lady Macbeth plans to kill King Duncan, she calls upon the spirits of murder to "make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse." Thin blood was considered wholesome, and it was thought that poison made blood thick. Lady Macbeth wants to poison her own soul, so that she can kill without remorse.…
. . " and "That will be ere the set of sun." (I. i. 1,4) foreshadow the king's…
<br>The first line signifies that those who are involved in bloody crimes, will someday become victims of them. It is saying that people are always punished at some time in their lives for their wrong doings. The statement also signifies that murder and violence are something that Macbeth is very familiar with. Using blood as a symbol in this passage makes it somehow more emotional and gets its point across while making the viewer or reader think. The symbol of blood is used extremely well all throughout the play.…
Just before he kills King Duncan, Macbeth is staring at the "dagger of the mind," and as he does so, thick drops of blood appear on the blade and hilt. He says to the knife, I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before" (2.1.45-47). However, he's not so far gone that he doesn't know what's happening to him: "There's no such thing: / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes" (2.1.47-49). Of course the "bloody business" is the murder he's about to commit.…