Macbeth believes that there is no amount of water that can cleanse his sin. Macbeth has disobeyed the rules of a soldier by not only murdering the King which makes him a traitor, yet he has also killed a defenseless man as Duncan was asleep. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth is unfazed by Macbeth murdering King Duncan. For instance, Lady Macbeth believes that the deceased are only asleep. Lady Macbeth states that “The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures” (2.2.56, 57).
Furthermore, in Act 5 Scene 6 she says ‘O my greatest sin lay in my blood./Now my blood pays for't.' The word ‘blood’ has a double meaning, for passion as well as red blood cells, showing that her body desires a better sexual partner than what she has with Camillo, emphasising the controlling nature of passion within her. For a church-going Jacobean audience at the time the play was written, Vittoria is allowing her sexual appetites to override her sense of morality,
Each text explores Madness in different ways. Madness in the content of Macbeth is unlike the Madness in Firestorm because the characters in Macbeth have made their own mayhem out of their own insanely chaotic actions but the character in Firestorm is being led to madness because of the environment around him and he had never meant for this to happen. In text 1 Macbeth, Madness is exposed when Lady Macbeth thinks she has a ‘spot’ of Duncan’s blood on her hands, she tries to wash this figment of her imagination off her hands, as she cries
Name Teacher Course Date Morality in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” suggests a lack of morals from both Delia and Sykes. Morality is an extent to which an action is right or wrong. Throughout the story, Sykes shows his lack of morals. Sykes put a rope on Delia’s back knowing she hates spiders, snakes and bugs, which caused Delia to freak out. An example of Sykes lack of morals is, “If you such a big fool dat you got to have a fit over an earth worm or a string, ah don’t keer how bad ah skeer you” (705).
It symbolizes how much people will go through to hide their horrid deeds. Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent guilt, evil, murder and death. This representation of blood is very familiar to what is understood by many. In the end the blood does not signal honor or bravery at all it represents the guilt felt by the Macbeths about not only about Duncan and Banquo but all the horrible murders they have committed. The motif of blood comes up so often in this play that it almost begins to be a dominating theme.
Macbeth now kills without thinking or lifting a hair on his arm. This is clear in Act 4 scene 2 when Macbeth sends for the murder of Lady Macduff and her son. This marks the moment of Macbeth’s utter madness, he no longer is killing for political gain or to get rid of an enemy, but simply out of the desire to do harm and evil. However, Lady Macbeth’s guilt drives her to utter madness in a different direction. She now sleepwalks and always has a delusional belief that she has blood on her hands.
He is complicit in Dwight’s attempt to lure Rosemary; he finds that they are too deeply entwined to stop the prevent carnage. Dwight’s attempts to “improve” Toby and turn him into a “man”, highlight the extreme vulnerability and sense of powerlessness that pervade many of the surrogate father figures in the novel. Dwight constantly sets him up for ridicule. For example, he makes him “shuck” horse chestnuts without gloves, which is an incredibly difficult task. His fingers become covered with a yellow stain and people think that he is hygienically unclean.
In the book, he turns Lucy Westenra, a poor, innocent young woman who had done absolutely nothing to him into a vampire to get back at Jonathan for wounding his pride “What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man” (Dracula 49). This hints at what Dracula is and at his evil nature. In Macbeth, however, the evil in Macbeth’s character isn’t quite so apparent at first. The evil in his nature, his inner beast, takes longer to show itself. As the play goes on, Macbeth begins to care less and less about who he kills and just starts killing all of the Thanes around him because he thinks that they are going to kill him.
While Macbeth has horrifying visions, Lady Macbeth seems cool and literal minded. To her, Duncan's blood is just something to The Role Of Imagery In Macbeth The Role of Imagery in Macbeth If a picture tells a thousand words, than imagine the importance of an image upon a play such as Macbeth. In any literary work, ...be washed off her hands. Worrying over things you cannot alter is a waste of time, she says (Internet Source 1). The site of Duncan s blood on Macbeth s hands has turned him crazy.
Her hallucination of the blood on her hands and her constant efforts to wash it off shows the suffering of having a guilty conscience, which is causing her to go insane. We later find out that she commits suicide due to it. The purpose of blood changes for the last time to a symbol of freedom when Macduff says, "I have no words: / My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain / Than terms can give thee out!" (Act 5, Scene 8, Lines 9-10) and then goes on to slay Macbeth. After analyzing all the different uses of blood throughout the book you can see how Shakespeare uses “blood” to show the change and transformation of characters.