Topic > How Shakespeare uses blood imagery in Macbeth

Evil thoughts created to hide evidence are clearly indicated in blood imagery. These evil thoughts are acknowledged through: "[w]hen we branded with blood those two sleepers / Of his chamber and used their own daggers, / What did they not do?" (1, 7, 83 -85). To be able to blame innocent people for such a horrible crime, you have to be very deceitful and evil. Macbeth's thoughts are very delusional. The blood imagery shows that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have a very evil thought process and that they do not think about how things will affect them in the future. The images of blood show us that both Macbeths have been blinded by their ambitions. Secondly, Shakespeare incorporates images of blood to demonstrate that evil thoughts can affect others in the same way. Lady Macbeth is a woman who can easily persuade someone through her evil ways, "[my] hands are your colour, but I am ashamed /To wear such a white heart."( 2. 2, 81-82). Lady Macbeth is planning to make Macbeth less of a coward so that he will not plead guilty to killing King Duncan. She plans to make him think in terrible ways so he will be brave enough to take the throne. She calls him a coward and says that she herself is brave, which shows that he is an evil character as he does not feel guilty after seeing so much blood from the king's body. Finally, images of blood bring out thoughts of committing evil deeds. The evil thought process of