Blood in Macbeth By: Brittney French, Madison Booth, Connor Davis, Ed Gunger

Lady Macbeth:

Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-fill

Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,

Stop up th' access and passage of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

Th' effect and it!

This whole quote is meaning that Lady Macbeth wants to be basically evil and cruel so she can kill Duncan.

Act I Scene v

Act II Scene iiMacbeth:

What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes!

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.

Macbeth is describing the blood on his hands what he done to King Duncan.

Act III Scene viMacbeth:

It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;

Augurs and understood relations have

By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth

The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?

It basically says that when one death occurs, others will follow. OR it says that it is the original blood that will have blood.

Act IV Scene iii

Malcolm:

Be not offended:

I speak not as in absolute fear of you.

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;

It weeps, it bleeds, and each new days a gash

Is added to her wounds.

Scotland is full of scars and it is crying for a new king, it needs help.

Act V Scene iLady Macbeth:

Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh,

oh!

There is still blood on his hand from killing Duncan, it will never ever go away no matter what he does.

References to blood

During the entire play blood has been to used to describe or show anger over 40 different times showing that blood plays a major role

●Blood in Macbeth

● Macbeth is a play centered on war, betrayal and justice and as such blood plays a significant role in arousing different kinds of emotions in the minds of the onlookers throughout the course of the play. One particular incident, was the scene after King Duncan was murdered by Macbeth. Macbeth enters his bedroom, pale faced and fear-stricken. He could not believe he had been part of the heinous crime he had just committed. He mentions that the thought of the blood splattered all over the body of the virtuous Duncan was itself horrifying, and returning the bloody daggers to his chamberlains, was impossible for him to endure or perform. This was when we see the ambitious and domineering Lady Macbeth say that a ‘little water’ will clear the blood of their hands, and therefore, their names of the deed. These are only a few of the references to blood in Macbeth but it is easily noticed that blood is symbolism for guilt throughout the play.