... hand blessed by God. In using these lines, Shakespeare introduces some feeling of happiness into the play. Through the gloomy and dark nature of the play Macbeth, this simple conversation between the Doctor and Malcolm gives the audience a quick break from the depressing theme. "Hand" imagery in Act IV is similar to ... Act V are said by or in reference to Lady Macbeth. Perhaps one of the most famous lines in the play comes from Act V and occurs when Lady Macbeth cries out while she sleepwalks, "Out, damned spot! Out I say!" (V.i.38). Lady Macbeth is referring to a spot of blood on her ha...

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... blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, making the green one red" (II.ii). Macbeth is feeling guilt about the death of King Duncan. He feels that his bloody hands are symbols of guilt and murder and that, like staining green ... the world around him, which he compares to an ocean, and that even the god Neptune's great powers cannot wash away his sin. The guilt Macbeth is feeling for his sins cloud all of his decisions. He is becoming increasingly scared and unstable. Upon learning that the witches predict that the sons ... mentally u...

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... and evil spirits. She demands of these "murd'ring ministers-: "unsex me here direst cruelty stop remorse nature's mischief."" This theme of Lacy Macbeth being so closely linked to the witches is strong throughout the whole play. In itself this quote could be taken either as an implication that she ... . In Lady Macbeth's final scene, (act 5, scene 1) we see how her descent into madness climaxes. She begins to sleepwalk, and to relive the events of the past, beginning with Duncan's murder, her blood covered hands and Banquo's ghost, then returning to her stained hands. "Yet here's a spot....

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... "What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? Be so much more the man." (1:7:48-51) She knows she has almost convinced Macbeth at this point, but she goes on to explain that he cannot go back on his word, she claims that she herself would have " dash"d the brains ... and rhyme in his plays to emphasise certain lines or phrases. These are indeed an important few lines to look at when studying the character of Lady Macbeth because it is a definite turning point in her character; going from strong, unscrupulous and manipulative to regretful and weakening. A few lines o...

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... before...It is the bloody business which now informs thus to mine eyes." (Act 2, Scene ii, 55-58). In this scene, the blood foreshadows, that Macbeth is about to kill Duncan. It also reflects on his state of mind, where he fears of killing Duncan, because his mind is playing tricks on him. ... "Smear the sleepy grooms withe blood." and "If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt." Lady Macbeth doesn't know that blood would become her worst enemy, in the long run, so as a reader we could kind of foreshadow, what would happen here on in ... of A...

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... / Which was not so before. There's no such thing. / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes." (II. 1. 54-57). Macbeth convinces himself to commit the crime, and proceeds to murder the King. However, immediately after he commits this horrible crime, we see that he is deeply regretful of what ... he has done. Looking at the blood on his hands, Macbeth fears that he will never be clean of it, and that it will dye all the oceans red: "What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine ... water will do the job of cleaning it off. Later, though, Lady Macbeth's guilt begins to s...

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... other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes throughout the play, is to follow the character changes in Macbeth. First he is a brave honoured soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and shows ... been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. After these few references...

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... in the first act. She is willing to do anything to have her husband seize the throne. As she is waiting for the arrival of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth gives a speech that describes her drive for her husband. "Come you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me ... she finishes her task. It is not until Act V that the reader is able to clearly see Lady Macbeth's insanity. The act opens with a doctor speaking to Lady Macbeth's gentlewoman about her reoccurring sleep walks. Lady Macbeth then enters with a taper, which according to her gentlewoman, she must have with her at...

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... meanings. This symbol is developed throughout the play and is a dominating theme. The symbol of blood changes throughout the play, and follows the character changes in Macbeth. At first, he is a brave honored soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and ... to say murder after he had killed Duncan, so he says this instead. Lady Macbeth shows the most vivid example of guilt using the symbol of blood in the scene in which she walks in her sleep. She says "Out damned spot! Out I say! One: two: why then 'tis time...

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... more. There are many different ways that Shakespeare uses them to create guilt in the characters throughout the story. In act 2 scene 1 Macbeth sees a dagger hovering in the air and leading him to Duncan's room and he says "on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood" ... of the time connect towards his guilty conscience. But Lady Macbeth is also burdened with the imagery of blood to represent that the murder is weighing on her conscience. In act 5 scene one when Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking she says "Out damned spot! Out, I say" referring to the "blood" ... that "stained" her after her mak...

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... the reader a description of how Duncan will be murdered. "I see thee still, and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before." MacBeth is talking about what he will see when he will have murdered Duncan. The image given is a sharp dagger covered in thick blood from the tip to the ... will resemble after multiple stabs, his blood emerging from his body. Both MacBeth and Lady MacBeth react differently from seeing so much blood and killing innocent men, women, and children. Lady MacBeth, in the fifth act, has become overwhelmed with guilt that she has gone insane. "Out, ...

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