Symbolism Of Blood In Macbeth

In the play Macbeth blood is a recurring theme that also acts hand in hand with the theme of guilt . [In act 1 scene 2 the wounded captain gives a gruesome and horrible description of the battle field, going into great detail.] (I don’t see how this sentence is relevant in the context of this essay) Once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit the murder, blood becomes a symbol of their guilt; they start to feel as if their blood stained hands will never become clean again, that their culpability for killing the king will always stay with them. Macbeth laments "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hands?"(2,2,63-64). Macbeth’s feeling of remorse appears as soon as he murders the King and sees the amount of blood on his hands;