FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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“Make thick my blood, /Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse, /That no compunctious visitings of nature/Shake my feel purpose, nor keep peace between/Th’ effect and it!”-Lady Macbeth (I.v.41-45)
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“Will it not be received, /When we have marked with blood those sleepy two/Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, /That they have done’t?”-Macbeth (I.vii.74-77)
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“And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts (large amounts) of blood, /Which was not so before.”-Macbeth (II.i.46-47)
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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine, /Making the green one red.” (II.ii.59-62)
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Detailed explanation-1: -“What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes. / Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / the multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red” (II. 2.57-60).…
Detailed explanation-2: -With the words “I am in blood / Stepped in so far” Macbeth reveals to his wife that he has already killed so many people that it will be too difficult to go back to being good. Here, blood symbolizes both Macbeth’s guilt and his newfound resolve to preserve his own life.
Detailed explanation-3: -’Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red’ Macbeth (Act II, Sc. II). Macbeth laments in this passage that all the oceans in the world wouldn’t be capable of washing the blood from his hands.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Multiple quotes show Macbeth’s guilt. For example, he laments, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine, ” meaning he doesn’t think anything will ever wash the metaphorical blood from his hands.