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Macbeth Blood Quotes

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Blood Stains In William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, he uses blood as a motif to represent guilt and evil. Mentions of blood are used many times in the story, referenced both literally and figuratively. I will be focusing on the figures. Unless a person is invulnerable to any harm, blood will inevitably spill, likely for the worse. Initially, blood represents evil and sin, all the terrible deeds that are done; furthermore, Macbeth uses this motif, saying: “We hear our bloody cousins” (Shakespeare 3.1.29). He says this to describe Malcolm and Donalbain, who seem malevolent to all the other characters because they ran to England the moment they heard of Duncan's death. When Macbeth visits the witches again, and the apparition speaks to him:
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At the beginning of the play Macbeth fights Macdonwald due to an act of violence. Macbeth states, “Till he unscam’d him from the nave to th’ chops, and fix’d his head upon our battles' (1.2.16). This quote is important because it is all motivated by his greed. It’s casting his winnings with violence and it’s decreasing his morality as an “epic hero.” Derek Cohen proclaims that “Macbeth inhabits every moment of violence in the play; He is restless as well; a destructive spirit who fills the conscious world of the play.

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