Macbeth (blood essay)
In the play Macbeth, blood is used to show regret and guilt in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's lives. It also represents Macbeth's untamed killing spree. It also represents Lady Macbeth losing her sanity. In addition it represents the end of Macbeth. In Act I, Scene ii, Duncan asks, "What bloody man is that?" (1). He is talking about the sergeant who is coming with a report that Scotland defeated Norway in the war. The sergeant told Duncan that it was brave Macbeth who helped them win the war. The sergeant says, "Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/ Which smoked with bloody execution" (I,ii,16-18). This description of Macbeth's sword is foreshadowing his untamed killing spree. Next in Act I, Scene v, during Lady Macbeth's unsexing scene, she says, "make thick my blood,/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse/ That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my felt purpose" (43-46). Lady Macbeth is asking the spirits to take all of her womanly features, so that she will not feel remorse, and can assist her husband in the murdering of King Duncan. Later in Act I, Scene vii, Macbeth is talking about his plan to kill Duncan: " But in these cases/ We still have judgment here; that we but
Macbeth sees a floating dagger in front of him, leading him to Duncan's chamber. Macbeth, by the end of the play, has killed so many people that it seems like the first murder was nothing. Banquo is asking why they would have a reason to kill King Duncan. In the same scene Ross asks, "Is't known who did this more than bloody deed" (27). She says, "Out, damned spot! out, I say" (30). Ross is explaining that the murdering of Duncan has upset nature's balance. The use of blood in this play was used to explain all of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's murders and their guilty consciouses. teach/ Bloody instructions, which being taught return" (9-10). Also in that scene, Macbeth says, "Here lay Duncan,/ His silver laced with his golden blood,/ And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature" (123). Later in this scene, Banquo says, "And question this most bloody piece of work" (143). In the next act, Act V, Scene i, Lady Macbeth keeps seeing this spot of blood on her arm that will not go away. Macbeth is trying to find the best way to kill Duncan. In this scene Lady Macbeth is losing her sanity because all of the secrets she kept inside for so long. Later on in the same scene Malcolm says, "I grant him bloody" (66).
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