Macbeth Quotes

Seite 1

Symbolism - Blood = Guilt. Sleep = Peace (of mind).

Reinforces themes of the unnatural and the natural balance being disturbed.

Such Welcome and unwelcome things at once.

This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair.

Admission of extreme guilt. These sins can never be repented for.

Macbeth: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine. Rhetoric.

Lady Macbeth's lack of guilt of remorse. Her sins will never be repented for.

Lady M: A little water cleans us of this deed. Referring to bloody hands.

At the start of Scene 3, in the Porter's comedic monologue, the Porter refers to himself as the Porter of hell and says variations of "Who in the devil is there?", perhaps trying to imply Macbeth is the devil, or at least comparable to the devil.