... strong as seemed to be because she backed down to kill Duncan herself. Instead she persuaded her husband do the dirty deed himself. In Act III, scene two, Lady Macbeth finally starts showing her degradation into a unstable, grieving person. "She now realizes that, "Naught's had, all's spent, / Where our desire is got without content ... about the murders that have taken place. She rubs her hands together as if blood from Duncan remained on them. "Out, damned spot! Out, I say! -One two- (V.i.28), says Lady Macbeth as she rubs her hands. As she sleep walks she relives the past when she plan...

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... or was not responsible. So it is necessary that I take all of the different points into consideration. We are given the impression that Lady Macbeth is a powerful woman who's sex appeal gives her influential properties over a lot of her husbands decisions. She is also a woman of great ... to do, Than wishest should be undone." At the beginning of the play there is a scene which has Macbeth and Banquo returning from a victorious battle. They are riding on horseback, when they spot three witches. The witches are frail, old hags with beards and withered limbs. Upon questioning the first wi...

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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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... go with each other. In life, blood most often represents something dirty. Most people get the shivers or cringe at the sight, or even the mention, of blood. The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is an excellent portrayal of how blood only symbolizes filth. After each murder, the guilt of all the bloodshed increases. It also demonstrates how blood signifies guilt ... are afraid of. If someone were to see a pool of blood simply oozing through cracks of pavement out on the street, he or she would get pretty freaked out. In Macbeth, after Duncan is murdered, Malcolm and Donalbain talk of ...

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... mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first reference to blood is in Act 2, Scene 1, when Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air leading him to Duncan"s room and he sees "on the blade and dudgeon gouts of blood", indicating that ... the knife has been visciously and violently stabbed into someone. The next reference, in Scene 2, is when Lady Macbeth smears the blood from the dagger on the faces and hands of the sleeping servants "I"ll guild the faces of the grooms withal, for it ... to kill them. Again, blood imagery is being used. In Ac...

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... killing King Duncan, suddenly for a second but I noticed it on the video she got sacred which was showed when she spoke in short sentences then suddenly Lady Macbeth is in charge again "give me the daggers" imposing if your scared I"ll do it. Then in the video we see her bossing him around like he ... the tension there must have been between them at this moment. In Act 3 Scene 3 King Duncan's body is discovered. We discover not only is Lady Macbeth evil and persuasive she's a good liar and actress too. She shows as this with the surprise tone of him being found in "what our house?" "Hel...

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... likely put this in to foreshadow murder and death. Another example in Shakespeare's Macbeth blood is that represents the evidence. Lady Macbeth, wife of Macbeth, shows the most strongest example of evidence using the symbol of blood in the scene. She says "Out damned spot! Out I say! One: two: why then 'tis time to do't: ... 42). This speech represents the fact that she cannot wipe the blood stains of Duncan off her hands. She says this right after the murder, when Macbeth was feeling guilty, and her guilty conscience grows stronger. She rubs the imaginary blood of her hands to rid her...

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