dâ€" (Act I, Scene v). In Macbeth's second soliloquy, blood is mentioned more than once (Act II, Scene i). The repeated dark themes and motifs create a needed sense of seriousness that pervades the play, true to the title of "tragedy.""
             Another characteristic of tragedy is poetic language. To any modern reader, Shakespeare's language is very obviously embellished, dramatic, and poetic. Modern readers identify the dialect of Shakespeare, full of words such as "theeâ€" and "thouâ€" as poetic, whether or not it has any poetic merit. This play does, however, display poetic merit to even the trained eye. The entire play is in iambic pentameter. During important parts in the play where key plot i
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