The Themes Of Blood Symbols In Shakespeare's Macbeth

The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare has many different motifs during the store. The most common motifs in the play are blood, sleep, vision, and supernatural. There are many grim moments in play that foreshadow the horridness that macbeth and lady macbeth have done. Although there are many motifs used in Macbeth the four main one are blood, sleep, vision, and supernatural.

The blood motif shows the consequences of the guilty characters. One example is when Macbeth killed King Duncan, and walked out of the room very distraught and in a haze of panic and sorrow. “I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before" (shakespeare 2.1.45-47) Macbeth said this as he was going to kill duncan. Then

like when macbeth sees the bloody dagger in front of his face. Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but, A dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.” (act 2.sc1) this proves that Macbeth is worried about killing King duncan, because he might get caught. “What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or the ' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword. If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!”(3.4.)the shows that Macbeth is gone completely crazy and starts to see Banquo 's ghost. “thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first A third is like the former.—Filthy hags! Why do you show me this? A fourth? Start, eyes! What, will the line stretch out to the ' crack of doom? Another yet? A seventh? I’ll see no more. And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass Which shows me many more, and some I see That twofold balls and treble scepters carry. Horrible

“I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Didn’t you say something?” Lady macbeth says this to Macbeth when she is going to see if he had Killed Duncan. “The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, Lamentings heard i ' th ' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused event New hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird, Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.”(act2.sc3) this is when lennox came to Macbeths castle for a visit and was asking them if they had felt the eryness of the night. “Dance around the cauldron and throw in the poisoned entrails. (holding up a toad) You’ll go in first—a toad that sat under a cold rock for a month, oozing poison from its pores.”(act4.sc1). the Witches are making a postion that will make macbeth see the apperitons or hilluseations of Fleance and Banquo. “I 'll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid. Weary sev 'nnights, nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed. Look what I have.”