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Shakespeare uses blood imagery in many different ways throughout the play. In the beginning blood imagery is used to refer to the battle and gallant soldiers. ... Blood imagery is used in the latter stages of the play in association with murder. Another way that Shakespeare uses blood imagery is when he describes Lady Macbeth and her evilness. Blood imagery is used more and more throughout the play in conjunction with evil.
At the start of the play blood imagery is used to describe the battle against the Norwegian king. ... Another use of blood imagery used referring to the battle, describes Macbeth’s more patriotic acts. ... Blood imagery is used in a positive context from the king’s viewpoint. Shakespeare uses blood imagery as praise for the Scottish soldiers, and not as adjectives to do with murder and acts of evil which were to follow.
Throughout the play Macbeth is associated with blood imagery. ... Here Shakespeare is using blood imagery to convey an atmosphere of heroics. ... ” Is definitely a much more negative aspect of blood imagery. Macbeth has now been described using blood imagery in a cowardly way, a step-down from the heroics in the battle. “For the blood boltered Banquo smiles upon me.” Shakespeare has used blood imagery to punish Macbeth for his employment of murderers to send Banquo, his main competition for the monarchy, to his bloody end. This use of blood imagery has now turned the readers against Macbeth. ... Shakespeare has used this to incorporate more and more blood imagery into his descriptions of Macbeth
Blood imagery is used in the progressing stages of the play to refer increasingly to murder.
Approximate Word count = 1301
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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