“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth” (Shakespeare 156). The way Macduff’s describes Macbeth gives one the best image of the character that Macbeth developed into. Macbeth, as a result of his destructive nature as a man, had turned into a creature worse than the devil. Man has a nature that is destructive. “There’s daggers in men’s smiles” (Shakespeare 86). The quote portrays that within a every man is a destructive nature that is hidden by other layers. Mankind’s ever so fatal and dark nature can lead to their own destruction without them being aware as proved by the motifs of blood and hand in the play.
In writing Macbeth, Shakespeare depicted the ruinous effects of those who try to
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He shows that within every man is a destructive nature and if it’s to be followed, it will lead to their demise. “Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?” (Shakespeare 170). Once again, Shakespeare symbolizes blood as the consequences that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth face. Lady Macbeth had stated this whilst sleepwalking and trying to rub her hands clean from blood. She means that she didn’t anticipate this much guilt from murdering King Duncan. She even goes on to say, “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Shakespeare 172). Shakespeare addresses to his audience to inform that when you murder a person unjustly, you forever lose your innocence. Once you loser your innocence, you will yearn to get it back but you won’t be able to as shown by this quote. “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (Shakespeare 172). Lady Macbeth tries to rub her her sins and yearns for innocence but she fails to regain it. Macbeth also in a similar state asks “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” (Shakespeare 72). In this case, Shakespeare uses blood to represents innocence. As a result, they are both lead to