Macbeth

Act 2 Q.4

Throughout the play, symbols, or objects or ideas stand for something other than that themselves, are used to represent major ideas and themes. What is symbolized by the repeated incidences of images of blood, sleep, and darkness?

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Blood represents death and murder. Macbeth has figuratively waded into blood, I am in blood. Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,. Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

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