Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them; and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
Act II Scene II-Lady Macbeth
Summary: Macbeth has killed King Duncan and goes to see his wife. Lady Macbeth tells his husband to wash the blood off his hands and forget about the whole thing. Instead, she wants him to wipe the king’s blood on the soldiers to frame them as the ones who killed Duncan.
Comment: In this case, “blood” means guilt and job. When Macbeth killed Duncan, he becomes worried about the situation thinking that someone must have seen him murder the ruler. It means job when his wife wants him to wipe the blood on the soldiers and move on with their lives.
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals 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 in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Act II Scene II-Macbeth
Summary: Macbeth realizes that he killed the king and is worried about what will happen to him. He is freaked out about the situation and what will god do to him. He also worries about the blood on his hand and wonders if the blood were to be washed off, could there still be some left on him.
Comment: In this case, “blood” means guilt. Macbeth knows that he murdered Duncan. He is very anxious about the whole thing and is afraid of everything in the castle. The knocking, the noise, and the god, which, all shows that he, is guilty when he is afraid of these things.
Look to the lady:
LADY MACBETH is carried out
And when we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work,
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
In the great hand of God I stand; and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.
Act II Scene III-Banquo
Summary: Knowing that someone has murdered King Duncan, Banquo explains that he will find the person who is responsible for this. Whoever did this will suffer very painfully soon?
Comment: In this case, “blood” refers to the killing of the King. This is the most blood piece of work symbolizes the death of Duncan.
To Ireland, I; our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody.
Act II Scene 3-Donalbain
Summary: Duncan’s two sons flee to two countries. Malcolm goes to England and Donalbain goes to Ireland to avoid suspicion of his father’s death. By doing this, both of them will not be framed for the murder of Duncan. There are people in Scotland, who carry daggers, and the closer we get to them, there will be blood.
Comment: Duncan’s two sons make the right choice of leaving Scotland. In this case, “blood” refers to the daggers in Scotland. The people in Macbeth’s castle are searching for them, believing that they were responsible for the king’s death.
