Macbeth

You Can’t Handle the Truth. Blood and water imagery appear throughout the play Macbeth, continually form the beginning to the end. Blood symbolizes evil, death, and hell, where water represents life, renewal, and purity. Through symbolic comparison, the two are complete opposites. Blood and water imagery develop both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s character dramatically. Shakespeare uses that type of imagery to symbolize Lady Macbeths and Macbeths decent into madness. “Will all Great Neptune’…

…the dark depths of insanity. Lady Macbeth is hysterically trying to wash herself free from her sins. Later in this act Lady Macbeth commits suicide because she was overwhelmed with sins and guilt that she could never wash clean. Shakespeare used blood and water imagery to describe Lady Macbeths decent into madness. Blood and water imagery distinguished both Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s character. It revealed the deceit and deception that their personalities withheld.