Imagery Of Blood In Macbeth
As the play opens, Macbeth's army has just defeated Norwegian invaders in a gruesome battle. As a badly shot sergeant
arrives, Duncan states, "What bloody man is that? He can report, as seemeth by his plight". The sergeant then tells the story of Macbeth's heroic victories over Macdonwald and the King of Norway. The sergeant's telling of the story in itself is heroic, because his loss of blood has made him weak.
Once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth leave on their murderous journey, blood comes to symbolize their guilt, they start to feel that their crimes have stained them in a way that cannot be washed clean. Macbeth cries after he has killed Duncan, even as his wife yells at him and says that a little water will wash the blood from his hands. Lady Macbeth's hallucination of blood on her hands seems to represent her feeling of guilt. She feels so guilty that she is having pshcological problems.
After Macbeth has murdered King Duncan he says, "This is a sorry sight" as he looks down......
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