Significance Of Hands In Macbeth

As people with free will, our bodies can do many things, especially our hands. They are used for plenty of wonderful things by workers, caregivers, entertainers, anyone doing almost anything. However, they can also be used for something more inferior; murder for example. All throughout time people's hands have been used for killing William Shakespears just figured that he should write a play that focused on that very use. He named it Macbeth. In Macbeth we are able to read a story revolving around power and multiple murders. Macbeth is a story filled with waves of emotion and actions. Some of the emotions and actions that are experienced throughout the play include guilt and shock as well as regret and psychotic episodes accompanied by visions.

Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are drowning in guilt. Macbeth even feels the need to state that even all of the great Neptune’s ocean could have his hands, but rather he would dye the water with his stained hands. “No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red”(2.2.79-81). As well as the shared feeling with Lady Macbeth “My hands are of your color, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white.”(2.2.83-84). The guilt in the form of blood after the killing of King Duncan between the couple was so abundant that it stained them crimson with blood as a constant reminder of their destruction decision. Hands are not the only tool that are stained with Duncan's blood, it is also their hearts. They are pure no more and will never be again; they grow darker as the play

As a result of the choice Lady Macbeth made earlier in the play she is suffering from sleepwalking. While the Doctor is observing her she begins shouting and washing her hands “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”(5.1.45). This connects to the usage in the second act when Macbeth says that all the water in the great ocean could not wash him clean. Much later in the fifth act, after Macduff enters with Macbeth's head Malcolm says “(Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands, Took off her life)”(5.8.84-83). The destruction and violence that is associated with hand has spread. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both dead, but the violence lived on and the play ended with