Blood is everywhere in Macbeth. Macbeth opens up with the battle between the Scots and the Norwegian invaders. The Blood in the play is mostly used to represent the guilt from the characters. The blood of the people who were killed could have all been blamed on Macbeth. Macbeth is the Thane of Cawdor who led of the army. The blood that is shown in Act …show more content…
He feels that he will ever be able to overcome this feeling. “Not even Neptune, the god of the sea, could wash all of the blood of his hands”. Macbeth believed it would turn all the seas …show more content…
Macbeth constantly wondered if his mind is playing tricks on him. His was getting constant hallucinations like the dagger becoming covered in imaginary blood, which will be the way that the real daggers will look like when Macbeth murders King Duncan. The blood symbolized the guilt for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. After Macbeth murdered Duncan, he had said that even "Great Neptune's ocean" could not wash away his stain of guilt. Lady Macbeth' tells him to "go get some water and wash this filthy witness" from his hands. It was pretty obvious that water would never be able to get the both of them fully cleaned. This also describes how Lady Macbeth spent most of the play's last acts trying to clean off the the imaginary "spot" of blood she couldn’t to wash from her hands because she was so guilty. Macbeth said that "blood will have blood” after he had killed Banquo, who was another friend of his, and he had returned as a ghost. Macbeth also killed Young Siward, and Macduff's young son. After all Macbeth’s trouble, he still never showed any guilt about the dangers that he and his men have committed.
In Act II Scene Three Line 110; Macbeth says that Duncan has “golden blood” which is in variation to Macbeth’s own blood. Duncan did not do anything to Macbeth for him to have any issues with him. In spite of the evident truths, Macbeth continued onto the kill Duncan and thus, the spilling