Use of Blood Images in MacbethWilliam Shakespeare uses many techniques to enliven the intensity and excitement of his plays. In the play MacBeth, Shakespeare uses the imagery of blood to add to the atmosphere a feeling of fear, guilt, shame, madness, and anger. The use of blood imagery allows the audience to visualize in their minds the crime scene where Duncan was murdered, as well as the scene where Lady MacBeth is trying to deal with the consequences of her actions. The speech and sight of blood has a great impact on the strength and depth of the use of blood imagery. MacBeth's soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 1 gives the reader a description of how Duncan will be murdered. “I see you again, and on your blade and your dudgeon drops of blood, which was not the case before.” MacBeth talks about what he will see when he murders Duncan. The image given is a sharp dagger covered in thick blood from tip to stud. Dudgeon is the stab. You can just imagine how deep Duncan's wounds are, what Duncan's body will look like after several stab wounds, his blood coming out of his body. MacBeth and Lady MacBeth react differently to seeing so much blood and killing innocent men, women, and children. Lady MacBeth, in the fifth act, is overcome with guilt over having gone mad. "Out, damn place! Out, I say! One-two- why then it's time to do it. Hell is troubled.- Fi, my lord, fi, a soldier, and afraid? What have we got need to fear who knows, when no one can call account of our power? Yet who would have thought that the old man had so much blood in him Lady MacBeth fears that someone would accuse MacBeth and herself of the murder of? Duncan She tries to get rid of the evidence, the blood that stained her hands, that could make her guilty of Duncan's death...