Shakespeare used the image of blood to portray the central idea of Macbeth, King Duncan's murder. The crime is foreshadowed in the second scene of the first act. The king shouts, " What bloody man is that?" (I,ii,1) He is referring to a soldier coming in from battle. The soldier then explains to King Duncan of Macbeth's heroics in bat

tle. One assumes that Macbeth is bloody just like the soldier. The soldier describes Macbeth in action "Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, / Which smoked with bloody execution." (I,ii,17-18) This line connects Macbeth with killing, and hints at the future.

try to use water for vindication, but Macbeth says that all the water in the ocean could not cleanse his hands. He imagines the blood from the murder staining the ocean red. Lady

The image and scent of blood symbolizes the unending guilt of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The blood on their hands represents the inability to annul the murder from their memories. While sleepwalking, Lady Macbeth was aggravated with own hands. She was seen muttering, "Out damned spot! Out, I say!" (V,I,39) This proves that

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