quo, and Lady Macbeths sleep walking. Darkness is the time when thetraveler hastens to reach safety in his inn, when Banquo rides homeward to meet his assassins;furthermore, it is the time when the wolf howls, the owl screams, and when murder steals forth tohis work.In Macbeth darkness symbolizes many things. First, and most important, it stands for the eviland death in the play. The darkness could partially blind out all of the horrible things that occurin the night. For, only in darkness can such evil deeds be done. Secondly, the darkness shows oneof Lady Macbeths weaknesses: her fear of dark. In the play, phrases of fear escape from lipseven in her sleep. She believes darkness to be the place of torment.Within the whole drama, the sun seems to shine only twice. First, in the beautiful but ironicalpassage when Duncan sees the swallows flirting round the castle of death. Another time, when atthe close of the avenging army gathers to rid the earth of its shame. Therefore, the reader canconclude that Shakespeare portrays darkness to establish the evil parts of the play; whereas, weemploy daylight to define victory or goodness in the play.We have known blood to all of us to represent life, death and often injury. Blood is an essentialpart of life and without blood, we could not live. This is known to everyone, and because of this,when Shakespeare uses the imagery of blood to represent treason, guilt, murder and death. Wehave easily understood it and fits in perfectly with the ideas we have of blood. Therefore, thisessay weighs blood to the most important imagery of Shakespeares play Macbeth.Shakespeare mentions the word blood, or different forms of it often in the play. Forty-two timesto be exact (ironically, the word fear also is used the same amount), with several other passagesdealing with imagery. Perhaps the best way to describe how the image of blood changesthroughout the play, by following the character changes in Macbeth. First, h...
