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Macbeth: Imagery - Paper

Macbeth: Imagery

In the play "Macbeth" Shakespeare uses many types of imagery. Imagery is a figurative language that writers use. Five different types he uses are blood, ill-fitting clothes, weather, darkness, and sleep. One of the most used ones is the blood imagery. Why does Shakespeare or any writer use imagery? Why does Shakespeare use blood so much in Macbeth?
Blood imagery is used very often in Macbeth. It certainly helps you imagine the sick plot that was going on. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses the blood imagery to show the guilt. In Macbeth guilt was not controlled very well. Many things happened by fault of guilt. The blood showed also the killings of all people it foreshadowed that there would be ...

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what the witches said. She taught him and ridiculed him to be evil. He listened to her and that is when the trouble started.
The first ignoble killing by Macbeth was the killing of what was supposed to be his friend Duncan. Macbeth killed Duncan to become king.

"And only thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood
…
It is the bloody business which informs" (Act 2, Scene1: lines 46-48)

Macbeth starts to hallucinate; the guilt is starting to build up within him even before he commits regicide.
The guilt inside Macbeth will lead to worse and worse things for him and Lady Macbeth. He will kill his best friend Banquo because he thinks he cant trust him. He hires murderers to do the bidding.
Later on Macbeth meets the Witches again. He receives three apparitions. The second apparition is a bloody child. The apparition tells Macbeth that the only person who can kill him is a person born of a c-section.
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute;
laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none ...

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Added: 5/21/2005 03:18:53 PM
Category: Arts
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