Macbeth

“Macbeth”

In the play “Macbeth”, blood is the most recurrent image in the play. Blood reoccurs many times showing death, guilt and foreshadowing what is to happen to Macbeth.

“Where’s that knocking? What’s happened to me, that every noise scares me? Whose hands are these? They’re plucking my eyes out! Is there enough water in the oceans to wash my hands of this blood? No! More likely my hands will stain the vast green seas boodred.” -Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth)
All of the blood is getting to Macbeth because he killed Duncan. Now he is feeling guilty for what he has done. He doesn’t completely realize what he has done and that the cannot change the fact that he killed Duncan. Macbeth’s hands are all bloody and stained and he is delirious.

“To be thus-a king-is nothing. I must be safely thus. I fear Banquo deeply. In his regal nature, there’s a ruling element to be feared. He’s daring; and with that fearless quality o...