Blood Motif

Question 1

1:2 Captain
Blood
Impressive and powerful Soldier
Fierce and Merciless
The quote shows how ruthless Macbeth slaughters his opposition which is seen as a noble quality in the 1600’s

Answer 1

“Like valour’s minion carved out his passage/till he faced the slave, /…till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps”

Question 2

2:2 Macbeth
Blood
Blood means responsible for crime (hangman’s hands). guilt unravelling.

Answer 2

“As they seen me with these hangman hands.”

Question 3

3:4 Macbeth
Blood
The dead will start to try get revenge on him.

He is to far deep into the killing there is no turning back now.

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Answer 3

“Blood will have blood”

“I am in blood/ stepped in so far that I should wade no more.”

Question 4

4:1 Second Apparition
Blood
The second apparition is telling macbeth to be ruthless and bold which fuels him into over confidence as he misinterprets what they are trying to say. This is instrumental in his downfall.

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Answer 4

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn/ The power of man, for none of women born/ shall harm MacBeth.”

Question 5

4:3 MacDuff
Blood
reiterating how Scotland is being treated and ruled under Macbeths tyrant rule.

Answer 5

“Bleed, bleed, poor country / great tyranny, lay thou basis sure”

Question 6

4:3 Malcom
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Macbeth has enslaved the country.

Answer 6

“it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/ is added to her wounds.”

Question 7

5:1 Lady Macbeth
Blood
Spot of blood on her hand.
Talking about king Duncan - her confession

promtes:
1. yet…
2. out…
3. yet who…
4. here’s…

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Answer 7

“Yet here’s a spot”

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

“Yet who would I have thought the old man had so much blood in him?”

“Here’s the smell of the blood still;”

Question 8

5:2 Monteith
Blood
Each have their own reasons to rid Macbeth
They are coming for Macbeth.
His conscious oppresses him

Answer 8

“Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes/ Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm.”

Question 9

5:2 Angus
Blood
Macbeths ‘secret murders’ are not going to stay hidden forever.

Answer 9

“His secret murders sticking on his hands.”

Question 10

5:8 Macbeth
Blood
guilt

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Answer 10

“My soul is too much charged/ With the blood of thine already”