In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, blood is a good example of the imagery Shakespeare uses. Blood is the most important imagery in Macbeth. It symbolizes honor and bravery and also duplicity and evil. The play starts out with the 3 witches talking about Macbeth. Macbeth is now a great hero because he led the Scottish army to victory. For the recognition of Macbeth's leadership, he becomes Thane of Cawdor. The weird sisters make many predictions to Macbeth and they all come true. Macbeth then makes the last prediction come true by killing King Duncan so he will become king.
             In the beginning of the play, blood is represented of honor and bravery and symbolizes good and victory. The blood on Macbeth's sword after the war shows him to be a brave hero. His bravery gets him the Thane of Cawdor because the former Thane was killed for treason during the war. The blood at the beginning of the play represents respect. Macbeth feels terribly horrible and guilty for murdering King Duncan and Banquo. "With all great Neptune's ocean wash the blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red", shows the tremendous guilt that blood represents in the play at this time. What Macbeth means is that with all the water in the ocean could not wash his hands clean from the deed he has just done. If he were to try and wash his hands in the ocean it would turn it red because there is so much blood on his hands. Macbeth not only feels guilty about King Duncan's murder but he also feels guilty about Banquo's murder. At a banquet in the castle, he sees Banquo's ghost and his bloody head.
             The blood also represents Lady Macbeth's guilt towards the end of the play. Lady Macbeth keeps Macbeth from going insane at the end of the play. She tells him he is not a man and things like that so he will stay in control about the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth shows no remorse about the murders ...