Macbeth blood motifs Flashcards
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine,”
Macbeth in soliloquoy
“Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor:”
Macbeth in soliloquoy
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody.”
Donaldbain after the murder
“Thou canst not say I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me.”
Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost
“I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er:”
Macbeth after banquet
“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:”
Macbeth after banquet
“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Lady Macbeth