Macbeth Blood Motif Essay

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Evelin Mojica
Mrs. Cillessen
British Literature 10, 3G
8 December 2015
“I abide by the honor code.” EM
Blood
In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the motif of blood plays a major role in the character development within Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Blood is a symbol of death and evil within the world that represents the destruction within a family and a relationship. The motif of blood changes Macbeth’s character to a more evil person, and his personality shifts from less prominent to more prominent over his wife. Lady Macbeth starts becoming very crazy, odd, and becomes less dominant over her husband. This is because of the symbolism of blood. She cannot get over all the murders she and her husband have committed. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth lose …show more content…

Macbeth begins to not care about her anymore, and he begins to gain more authority. This is because of the murders that he has been devising. To kill King Duncan and his son. In Macbeth, “If th’ assassination could trammel up the consequences and catch with his surcease success, that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here but her, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgement here, that we but teach bloody instructions,” (I.IIV). Here Macbeth shows that he is debating whether or not to kill Duncan. When Macbeth says “bloody instructions,” he’s showing how and where he will be committing the murder and he is scared that this murder he is about to do may be repeated to him. This is the beginning of when Macbeth will actually start becoming more evil and violent with the killing of Duncan; thus, beginning a different relationship with his wife. In Macbeth, he says, “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed.” (III.II). Macbeth has become into a more evil and cruel wrongdoer and he asserts his manliness over that of his wife. He now begins to urge into more terrible deeds, and he begins to ignore his fate, and fortune. With each murder success, he starts to become more dominant over Lady Macbeth. Therefore, with Macbeth’s different personality and different attitude toward his partner, Lady Macbeth starts to change

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