What Does Blood Symbolize In Macbeth

In Macbeth, blood is a symbol of imagery; it is a very important key factor of the play that has different types of meaning. Blood is brought up throughout the entire Macbeth play in which it is to symbolize guilt, evil, and death. If we were to stop and think and actually consider what blood really is and then compare to Macbeth, the comparison is similar but different in Macbeth’s unique way. One may think about the fluid, which keeps the body working.

Lady Macbeth talks these words “Make thick blood, Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.” (I.III.40-50) as she is anticipating the plan of killing King Duncan. She wasn’t the blood to be thick coming out of Duncan after she kills him because she has no remorse for him, unlike her husband.

“You are, and do not know ’t. The spring, the head, the fountain of blood is stopped; the very source of it is stopped.” Lady Macbeth is obviously ready to do whatever is important for her husband to take the royal position. She Lady Macbeth is the genuine and loyal to her husband Macbeth and will handle all matters for him. Macbeth is elaborating that the blood of King Duncan’s is flowing out of his body like a fountain. King Duncan’s children bloodline has ended due to their father’s death. There will no long be a flowing bloodline for Duncan. The murder weapon is discovered by Lennox, which are the daggers. “Their hands and faces were all badged with blood; so were their daggers, which unwiped we found Upon their pillows.” The daggers are badged with blood. Badged is “any emblem, token, or distinctive mark” ("Badged | Define Badged at Dictionary.com," n.d.) the blood is marked on the daggers and pillows very distinctive. The blood is being showed as coming out of the body as a big crime scene. Gouts of blood, is showing to be the blood flow of being in piles of blood. “I see thee still; and in thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before.” Macbeth is still having thoughts and flashbacks of the