The use of imagery as a literary device is used to convey several descriptions that either enhances the play by looking beyond the writing or present different forms of images to the mind of the reader. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the image of costumes to fulfill both of these functions. By using the image of costumes, Shakespeare provides to the reader a sense and image of belonging and costumes, and yet at the same time the image represents the identity of the characters. The main point of this image is to further express the costumes to reveal the sense of identity and the ultimate sense of guilt.
             By revealing the sense of identity, Shakespeare portrays in the play that identity is a possession that one cannot steal or be traded with because in doing so it corrupts the equilibrium of nature. By highlighting guilt, Shakespeare fulfills the idea that human guilt is far more powerful then the greed that the human himself possess, as he did with the other images.
             The character of Macbeth at the beginning of the play is portrayed as honorable before his mind was corrupted with the influence of greed. And since Shakespeare likes to use wordplays, he seems to make the "good" characters very intellectual. Because Macbeth was a good man in the beginning, when Ross comes and tell Macbeth that he was now the thane of Cawdor and Glamis, he simply stated, "why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" With Macbeth's sense of intellectualism, he implies that the borrowed robes would be the name, the identity, of the former thane of Cawdor and that it is unnatural to dress that robe.
             Later in the play, Macbeth finally succeeds at assassinating Duncan and he goes back to Lady Macbeth. However, Macbeth returns with a different personality, that of fatigued and frightened. There, Lady Macbeth states, "hark, more knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us and show us to be watchers. Be no
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