Blood, Blood Everywhere In the play Macbeth, blood is used to show regret and guilt in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lives. It also represents Macbeth’s untamed killing spree. It also represents Lady Macbeth losing her sanity. In addition it represents the end of Macbeth. In Act I, Scene ii, Duncan asks, “What bloody man is that?” (1). He is talking about the sergeant who is coming with a report that Scotland defeated Norway in …showed first 75 words of 1079 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1079 total…blood and death” (11). MacDuff is describing the trumpeters as they sound the attack. The use of blood in this play was used to explain all of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s murders and their guilty consciouses. By the end of the play, Lady Macbeth has lost her sanity from keeping all of it inside. Macbeth, by the end of the play, has killed so many people that it seems like the first murder was nothing.