Themes And Imagery In Macbeth

Macbeth is an extravagant play made by William Shakespeare. Macbeth, the play, was composed in the early seventeenth century to entertain the king at that time. Some elements of the play are metaphor, theme, and imagery. The major elements of The Tragedy of Macbeth are the metaphor of sleep, the meanings behind the imagery, and the theme of criminality.

Macbeth comes across his future, and at first is suspicious of the witches’ prophecies, but then the first one comes true. After that, life goes downhill for Macbeth. He ultimately starts killing people, losing sleep, and descending out of touch with reality. Consequently, Macbeth ends up dying because the greed of being king got to his head, and he ended up losing his pulse.

Shakespeare has an extraordinary way of putting the way people feel into words. Shakespeare’s infamous quote, “The death of each day’s life” (2.2.3) is a good example (Delaney 209). The death of each day’s life has many meanings behind it (Delaney 209). One of the metaphors is sleeping is like practicing death (Delaney 209). Waking up in the morning is the state of being born. During the day is midlife, with one running errands and getting things done, and lastly at night is like being an elder. Being at home just resting and relaxing until eventually one decides to go to bed and go to sleep, and sleep is the

When Lady Macbeth says “Out damned spot! Out I say...here’s the smell of blood still” (5.1.34-39), that scene shows the reader that Lady Macbeth has an internal problem that can’t be held inside of her any longer. The guilt of having King Duncan’s blood on her hands manifested itself into her, and came out of her at night when she was sleep walking (Diehl 195-197). These examples of symbolism in Macbeth gives the literature smooth flow and the play keeps the reader constantly interested and always trying to figure out the deeper meanings behind the