Macbeth
...y execution, / Like valor’s minion carv’d out his passage”. These lines of the play are used to symbolize Macbeth’s bravery while he was at war. Although Macbeth was brave and looked upon as a hero with being so courageous and brave at the beginning of the play by the end he is no more than a lunatic and a murderer. As the play progresses to Act II and Macbeth is getting ready to kill the King and when he sees the imaginary dagger floating in the air. “And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.” This meant that someone else had used it on someone before this. This could symbolize death or murder later on in the play. Guilt was also used quite frequently in the play the first time I noticed it was when Macbeth’s line when he was asking to wash the blood of his hands. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean was this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. This was how Macbeth was pleading to get the “Blood” of his hands, which represented the guilt he was facing for committing the evil crime of killing a king. Lady Macbeth is also feeling some sort of guilt as she says “ My hands are of your color” Lady Macbeth is feeling the guilt by she refuses to fall into feeling guilt for the murder that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth committed. The two best examples of guilt directly from blood is the scene after Banquo was killed. Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo...