Macbeth: Blood Imagery

Evil is a destructive force; it causes harm to those who embrace it and
their victims. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth fall into the hands of evil. Evil is what drives people to commit unnatural
actions of destruction. Macbeth succumbs to evil through his fatal flaw, greed,
and it causes him to hurt others and ultimately, himself. When Macbeth willingly
murders, massacres, lies and deceives, he loses his heath and sanity. Evil
corrupts everything it touches, and Macbeth decides to be evil’s servant. But,
when Macbeth embraces evil, it corrupts him, and it ultimately destroys him as
well. Lady Macbeth is a victim of Macbeth’s fatal flaw, since she is drawn in, and
becomes greedy for power herself. She pushes Macbeth into destruction when
she adds the small touch that plunges Macbeth into a chain of murder,
destruction, and lying followed by the loss of their sanity and health. After
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are well into t...