water

Question 1

• roman allusion and rhetorical question
• motif of water -> desire for cleanliness against guilt
• Roman God of the sea
• reverse horrific act

Answer 1

‘Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’

Question 2

• vast volume of sea - the extent of his crime
• red / blood. toppling guilt
• submerging entire oceans in his guilt. His hands and soul are stained and damaging with irreversible guilt

Answer 2

• ‘multidinous’
• ‘incardine’
• ‘turns the red one green’

Question 3

• extended metaphor of water
• lady macbeth thinks that the crime can easily be swept under the rugs
• contrast to: ->

Answer 3

‘A little water clears us of this deed’

‘Here’s the smell of blood still ; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O.’