“What hands are here! Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. 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.” (2.2.60-64) In Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, blood plays a huge role when it comes to imagery. In the quote above, the imagery of blood demonstrates the inability Macbeth is facing to get all of the blood off of his hands. The blood is changing color from green to red,and this indicates the guilt within Macbeth is always going to be there, like a stain. Blood also has a great representation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s conscience. Shakespeare’s imagery of blood constantly lingers in the character’s minds. When the blood appears for
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The “Bloody and invisible hand” is a literary technique called an oxymoron. For those that do not know what that is, it is a figure of speech that contradicts things. The oxymoron used in here demonstrates a contrast between appearance versus real life by comparing guilt and innocence. The imagery of blood on Macbeth’s hand is symbolizing guilt by showing the different levels of cruelty going on. The “invisible hand” is a representation of Macbeth trying to hide the constant thoughts and feelings of guilt felt by him. Blood imagery is used to spotlight guilt due to the horrendous acts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s crimes as they attempt to hide their constant fear and remorse from the sinful and heinous crimes they have committed so far in the play. In the next scene the First murderer says, “Let it rain down blood!” (3.3.24), the blood they are talking about here is imaginary. The murderer says this because Banquo is about to come to his death. The murderers have already planned the whole scheme out, and they are ready to go through with it. Going back to the thesis, the First Murder does not feel as much guilt as Macbeth will. He was simply doing the job he was …show more content…
Out, I command you! One, two. OK, it’s time to do it now.—Hell is murky!—Nonsense, my lord, nonsense! You are a soldier, and yet you are afraid? Why should we be scared, when no one can lay the guilt upon us?—But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him? (5.1.32-37) In this part of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, Lady Macbeth has started her hallucinations. The blood stained guilt has taken over her conscience and has made her start hallucinating. Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking in the palace, and starts to scream at an imaginary thing. That “thing” she is screaming at is imaginary blood. When she sees this blood, she is sensing her own guilt and has finally realized that she has made horrible mistakes. She is trying so hard to get this blood off by rubbing her hands together, but she is unable to get it off. According to The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, “Verbal auditory hallucinations of patients are usually sensed as coming from multiple voices. The voices are usually not recognized by patients; they are anonymous. They are expressed mainly in the second person (as if directed to the patient by others), occasionally in the third person (as if two or more persons are overheard talking about the patient), very rarely in the first person.”, after analyzing the information from the source above, we realize that Lady Macbeth is having these same things happen to her. Except she is not hearing voices, she is actually seeing blood
The “Bloody and invisible hand” is a literary technique called an oxymoron. For those that do not know what that is, it is a figure of speech that contradicts things. The oxymoron used in here demonstrates a contrast between appearance versus real life by comparing guilt and innocence. The imagery of blood on Macbeth’s hand is symbolizing guilt by showing the different levels of cruelty going on. The “invisible hand” is a representation of Macbeth trying to hide the constant thoughts and feelings of guilt felt by him. Blood imagery is used to spotlight guilt due to the horrendous acts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s crimes as they attempt to hide their constant fear and remorse from the sinful and heinous crimes they have committed so far in the play. In the next scene the First murderer says, “Let it rain down blood!” (3.3.24), the blood they are talking about here is imaginary. The murderer says this because Banquo is about to come to his death. The murderers have already planned the whole scheme out, and they are ready to go through with it. Going back to the thesis, the First Murder does not feel as much guilt as Macbeth will. He was simply doing the job he was …show more content…
Out, I command you! One, two. OK, it’s time to do it now.—Hell is murky!—Nonsense, my lord, nonsense! You are a soldier, and yet you are afraid? Why should we be scared, when no one can lay the guilt upon us?—But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him? (5.1.32-37) In this part of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, Lady Macbeth has started her hallucinations. The blood stained guilt has taken over her conscience and has made her start hallucinating. Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking in the palace, and starts to scream at an imaginary thing. That “thing” she is screaming at is imaginary blood. When she sees this blood, she is sensing her own guilt and has finally realized that she has made horrible mistakes. She is trying so hard to get this blood off by rubbing her hands together, but she is unable to get it off. According to The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, “Verbal auditory hallucinations of patients are usually sensed as coming from multiple voices. The voices are usually not recognized by patients; they are anonymous. They are expressed mainly in the second person (as if directed to the patient by others), occasionally in the third person (as if two or more persons are overheard talking about the patient), very rarely in the first person.”, after analyzing the information from the source above, we realize that Lady Macbeth is having these same things happen to her. Except she is not hearing voices, she is actually seeing blood