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... Macbeth sees blood even in his hallucination of a dagger. Lady Macbeth feels guilty about her betrayal to the king, therefore while sleepwalking she is trying to wash her hands out of Duncan’s blood. In Macbeth the image of blood symbolizes treason and guilt through the thane of Cawdor’s execution, Macbeth hallucination of a bloody dagger and Lady Macbeth’s bloody hands. ... And it is ironic because Macbeth becomes the next thane of Cawdor and he is also going to betray his king.
In Macbeth’s case Shakespeare also describes the image of blood as treason and guilt, Macbeth imagines a bloody dagger in front of him, pointing towards Duncan’s room in his castle. As Macbeth describes it: “And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before, / It is the bloody business which now informs thus to mine eyes” (II.
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