Imagery in Macbeth

William Shakespeare used imagery may times in the play Macbeth. Clothing, darkness, animals, and blood are four major sources of Imagery. Clothing is meant to show what a person has earned, darkness is meant to symbolize evil, animals show what is natural and blood stands for wounds, or death. William Shakespear used imagery many times in the play Macbeth. Clothing, darkness and blood are four major sources of Imagery. Clothing is meant to show what …

…What, will these hands never be clean here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand". Again, showing the imagery of blood used as guilt. The imagery of blood is used in two different ways. One of good and the other of evil. In the beginning of the play blood is shown as honor and bravery and at the end it is shown as guilt and bad.