"What bloody man is that?" (Act 1. Scene 2. Line 1).

In these, the opening words of the play's second scene, a sergeant then tells the story of Macbeth's heroic victories over Macdonwald and the King of Norway. The sergeant's telling of the story is in itself heroic, because his loss of blood has made him weak. Thus his blood and his heroism seem to enhance the picture of Macbeth as a hero. As Lady Macbeth plans to kill King Duncan, she calls upon the spirits of murder to

"make thick my blood; / Stop up the access and passage to remorse" (Act 1. Scene 5. Lines 43-44).

Lady Macbeth wants to poison her soul, so that she can kill without remorse. Just before he kills King Duncan, Macbeth is staring at the "dagger of the mind," and as he does so, thick drops of blood ap

These are only some of many, many uses of blood in the play. Out of so many different themes in Macbeth, blood is the largest. Those examples were just up to the end of Act 2, which shows how much it’s involved in the play’s meaning. Without the use of blood as a theme Macbeth wouldn’t have been the same. It is also used for more than one meaning in several instances. This also shows the diversity of the meaning. Shakespeare was able to weave blood all through the play and thus give it a feeling of darkness and evil.

pear on the blade and hilt. He says to the knife,

meaning that as the murdered King's sons, they are likely to be murdered themselves. It's strangely dark on the morning after the night of King Duncan's murder, and Ross says to an Old Man,

Of course the "bloody business" is the murder he's about to commit. He asks himself if all the water in the world can wash away the blood:

"Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?" (Act 2. Scene 4. Line 22).

"Their hands and faces were all badged [spotted, marked] with blood" (Act 2. Scene 3. Line 102).

"Ah, good father, / Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, / Threaten his bloody stage" (Act 2. Scene 4. Lines4-6).

The "stage" is this earth, where we humans play out our lives. Because of Duncan's murder, the stage is bloody and the heavens are angry. Moments later, Macduff enters and Ros

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