William Shakespeare 's ' Macbeth ' Essay
One of the symbols in Macbeth was blood which, throughout the play-symbolized guilt. After Macbeth kills King Duncan there is a knocking and he exclaims ‘’All great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood /Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather “(2.2.58-59) This quote explains how the enormity of the crime he has committed dawns on him and the incredible sense of guilt he feels. He shows this by talking about the blood on him and how even all the water from Neptune’s great ocean could not clean the blood from his hands but he is also talking about the guilt he feels. In the last act of the play Lady Macbeth is seen to be going crazy. She continuously sees spots of blood on her hands and keeps trying to wash the blood spots off. The spots of blood that she is seeing is actually a visual representation of the guilt she feels after forcing her husband to kill the king and the events after.
When Macbeth becomes king the natural world…