Macbeth By Shakespeare

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Macbeth By Shakespeare

Though only written in three weeks and full of loose ends, Shakespeare’s
Macbeth is full of the lessons of life. There are also many themes included in
this play, some being animals, clothing, darkness, and blood. Blood is one of
the largest themes in the play. It’s used frequently but it is used for more
than one metaphor. The use of blood is what gives the play feeling of foul play
and darkness. It (blood) is woven all through the play. "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 appear
on the blade and hilt. He says to the knife, I see thee still, / And on thy
blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before" (Act 2. Scene
1. Lines 45-47). However, he's not so far gone that he doesn't know what's
happening to him: "There's no such thing: / It is the bloody business which
informs / Thus to mine eyes" (Act 2. Scene 1. Lines 47-49). 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: "Will all great
Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" (Act 2. Scene 2.
Lines 57-60.) And he answers his own question: "No, this my hand will
rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red"
(Act 2. Scene 2. Lines 57-61). In contrast, his wife thinks his obsession with
blood shows that he's a coward. She dips her hands in the dead King's blood, and
smears the grooms with that blood, then tells Macbeth that "My hands are of
your colour; but I shame / To wear a heart so white" (Act 2. Scene 2. Lines
61-62). She means that now her hands are bloody, like his, but she would be
ashamed to have a "white" -- bloodless and cowardly -- heart like his.
She leads him away to wash his hands, and she seems quite sur...

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