bloodmac Shakespeares Macbeth - Images and Imagery of Blood and Sleep

Blood and Sleep Imagery in Macbeth Macbeth screams imagery Shakespe be uses imagery of blood and sleep to create an atmosphere of horror, during the killing of Duncan, which contributes to our sense of Macbeths growing insanity. at last madam Macbeths final scene is enhanced with the use of blood imagery which reflects her guilt. Shakespeares use of imagery connects the feeling of horror from audience to play. Macbeth held such potential for himself. He was honoured Thane of Cawdor, and who knows what else Duncan had in store for him. Unfortunately he chose not to find out, by murdering the king. The scene of Duncans murder (II, ii) demonstrates the guilt and feeling that the blood diffuses into the air. When he returns to his bedchamber lady Macbeth notices that he has brought back the blood covered daggers with him. She persuades him to bring them back to the scene of death, but he refuses by saying Ill go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done Look ont again I dare not. Lady Macbeth responds ruthlessly to her husband, Infirm of purpose Give me the daggers. The dormancy and the dead are but as pictures. Tis the eye of child hood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, Ill gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt. Lady Macbeth tells her husband that he was acting like a child and went by herself to smear blood upon the kings grooms so it will seem like they did it. Lady Macbeth returns from Duncans chamber telling Macbeth that her hands are covered in blood just like his. She encourages Macbeth to wash the blood from his hands to remove the evidence from their presence. My hands are of your color... I hear a knocking...A little... ... come, come, give me your hand Whats done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed Lady Macbeth is haunted by her guilt. The blood that was shed disturbs her conscience so much that she cant hide from it. Works Cited and Consulted Campbell, Lily B. Macbeth A Study in Fear. R eadings on Macbeth. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1999. 126-35. Foakes, R.A. Images of Death in Macbeth. In Focus on Macbeth. Ed. John Russell Brown. Boston Routledge, 1987. mob IV of Scotland. Daemonologie. In Minor Prose Works. Ed. James Craigie. Edinburgh Scottish Text Society, 1982. Muir, Kenneth. Introduction. In Macbeth. Ed. Kenneth Muir. New York Routledge, 1992. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Ed. Kenneth Muir. New York Routledge, 1992. Truax, E. Imagery in Macbeth Comparative Drama 23. 1990359-76.