FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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People will see the blood on his hands and know he is the killer.
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He can never get over his guilt about killing Duncan.
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He is afraid to wash the blood from his hands.
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He is not the only one who wanted Duncan dead.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of that guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him-that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red-will stay with him until his death.
Detailed explanation-2: -After he kills Duncan, Macbeth comes to Lady Macbeth with his hands covered in blood. Horrified by his act, Macbeth laments that not even all of “Neptune’s ocean” would be enough to clean his hands. The blood on Macbeth’s hands symbolizes the guilt he feels for murdering Duncan.
Detailed explanation-3: -i. 33). Macbeth had experienced violence and Blood is also used as a reminder of the guilt and trauma from the murder of King Duncan, the guards and Banquo. Macbeth refers to his hallucination of the ghost of Banquo: “It will have blood, they say.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lady Macbeth again warns him not to think of such “brain-sickly of things” and tells him to wash the blood from his hands (44). Seeing the daggers he carries, she chastises him for bringing them in and tells him to plant them on the bodyguards according to the plan.
Detailed explanation-5: -Key quotation: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er (III. 4.136–8). Shakespeare is saying here that Macbeth has involved himself in so many murders that it is as easy for him to carry on than to turn back.