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Character study in "A Chip in the Sugar"

Blood is present all through out the play. People automatically put an image of red liquid in their head when they think of blood, but when Shakespeare writes about blood its not always gore and guts. In Macbeth it is represented by many things like Evil, Guilt and Death.

Blood often appears as / or as a result of evil. The Blood also comes back to haunt the character to remind them of the evil the character has caused. This happened when the murderer came to see Macbeth at the banquet scene. The murderer had blood all over their face and it reminded Macbeth that he had committed a very evil deed by killing his best friend. Macbeth also dreams of a knife covered in blood. It is about the killing of Duncan, which is a very evil deed. It is very important to have evil in the pl...

Posted by: Rheannon Androckitis

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