Macbeth Blood Quotes

As the play nears the end blood plays a less prevalent role in Macbeth’s character to represent that Macbeth’s morality is completely shot. He has nowhere to turn, he has a loss of all feeling, and his life has become completely meaningless. His wife has begun to sleepwalk saying, “What, will these hands neer be clean? Heres the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of / Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (5.1.40, 46-47) The smell of blood, and the blood itself on Lady Macbeth’s hands exhibit her guilt over Duncan’s murder. Thus the guilt she feels for causing her husband to do horrible things and creating the guilty conscience her husband now posses. The hallucination of the blood on her hands and her extreme effort to wash it off shows

My soul is too much charged/With blood of thine already.”(5.8.--) When Macbeth says his “soul is too much charged” he means that his soul is full (of blood), and overburdened. Blood in this case, to which Macbeth refers, is the blood that was shed in the slaughtering of Macduff’s wife and children. Basically saying that those specific murders weigh deeply on his already guilty conscience, and because of that he doesn't want to shed Macduff’s blood as well. Macduff is not satisfied with Macbeth’s words, which leads to the ultimate tragic death of Macbeth, even though this time he actually tries to do the right thing. Shakespeare has used blood here to enhance the audience’s understanding of Macbeth’s character. The audience has now completely witnessed the the transformation of Macbeth. He has completely fallen from greatness at this point, and is possibly at his most hopeless and pitiful moment. The desperation Macbeth feels, and his genuine feeling of remorse for his acts allows the audience to sympathize with him. For he has been a noble warrior, truly loved his wife and would do anything for her, and even respected the king, but his vaulting ambition, that he is in fact aware of, creates his overall