"Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here?
Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
Macbeth
page 269
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Macbeth just murdered Duncan and hears a knock
at his door. He feels real guilty and thinks someone is after him. When he says turn the entire sea red he means there is
enough blood "on his hands" to do so. The blood on his hands means guilt and that will stay with him the rest of his life.
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"....unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! Make
thick my blood,.....you murd'ring ministers,...."
Lady Macbeth
page 257
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Lady Macbeth says these words as she prepares herself to commit murder. She is taliking about
being manly. Later, this sense of the relationship between masculinity and violence will be deepened when Macbeth is unwilling
to go through with the murders and his wife tells him, in effect, that he needs to "be a man" and get on with it. She stands
behind Macbeth and encourages him to commit murders in order to get what he wants.
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"She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. ........ To
the last syllablee of recorded time; Amd all our yesterdays have lighted fools......."
Macbeth
page 320
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These words by Macbeth signifys the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. By Lady
Macbeth dying Macbeth has lost all power. He means that now Lady Macbeth is gone there is no meaning in life anymore.
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