Next another symbol of significance is blood. This figure weighs on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with the killings of Duncan and Banquo. Blood affects the reader by seeing them deal with guilt and how it makes them go insane. Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood, Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather, The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making he green one red”(2.2.60-63) This is a metaphor saying that these huge waves will turn green into red, and nothing even this strong will get rid of his guilt. In result, Lady Macbeth thinks that if he washes his hands and gets rid of the blood it will wash away his immorality. Even into Scene 5 you get an image of Lady Mabeth trying to wash away this imaginary spot of blood,
