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             Blood and water imagery appear throughout the play Macbeth, continually form the beginning to the end. Blood symbolizes evil, death, and hell, where water represents life, renewal, and purity. Through symbolic comparison, the two are complete opposites. Blood and water imagery develop both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's character dramatically. Shakespeare uses that type of imagery to symbolize Lady Macbeths and Macbeths decent into madness.
             "Will all Great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand...this my hand... Making the green one red." This quote is extremely effective, while it describes so much pain and guilt. Macbeth has just committed the murder of Duncan, the king of Scotland, his own blood relative. Macbeth staggers into his castle devastated by his actions and begins to break down from all the guilt and remorse he has withheld. Macbeth says when he dipped his hand into the ocean it would turn from green to red. Red symbolizes pain, when his hand sank into the ocean all of Macbeth's guilt, evilness, and sins flow in and the sea turns a brilliant color of red. The blood and water imagery in that scene symbolize Macbeth's decent into madness. From that point in the play Macbeth snowballed both physically and mentally.
             "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!...Hell is murky...What need we fear who knows it...who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?" Lady Macbeth says this quote in scene one of act IV. While "sleep walking" Lady Macbeth was frantically trying wash her hands free of the imaginary blood she saw on her hands. The blood on her hands represents her guilt and sins that she has locked inside her soul. Lady Macbeth's being is tainted with evil. Lady Macbeth was committed to the murders, but later in act IV she realized that she sold her soul to the devil, and she had a one way ticket to hell. She b...