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This 5 page paper considers the blood imagery that runs throughout the play "Macbeth," and its relation to the action and to the meaning of the play as a whole. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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intrigue, murder and ambition has enthralled audiences for centuries. This paper considers the blood imagery that runs throughout the play, and its relation to the action and to the
meaning of the play as a whole. Blood Imagery The imagery begins almost immediately. The first scene is only 12 lines long and sets the supernatural tone of
the play, because it takes place in a thunderstorm and introduces the Three Witches. The leave to go to the heath, "There to meet with Macbeth" (I, i, 8).
The second scene opens with King, Duncan, saying: "What bloody man is that?" (II, i, 1). Not three minutes into the play, the word "bloody" is spoken.
The bloody man in question is a sergeant who describes the battle hes just survived, a battle in which Macbeth was involved and in which he fought bravely.
The sergeant describes Macbeth thusly: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), / Disdaining Fortune, with his brandishd steel, / Which smokd with bloody execution..." (II, i, 16-18).
What hes saying is that Macbeth fought bravely, against long odds, and that his sword was red with blood. Already we have a picture of Macbeth as a
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection between family members, and the play is about relationships
such as that between Banquo and his son Fleance; Macduff and his Lady; and Macbeth and his wife. However, the Macbeths are childless, which sets them apart from the
other couples; when Macduff cries, "He has no children" (IV, iii, 216) upon learning that Macbeth has murdered Lady Macduff and their children, it is one of the most heart-wrenching
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