Macbeth - Blood Quotations

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"It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;"
This is when Macbeth acknowledges that he has to pay for his crimes.
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"Blood hath been shed ere now./Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear./but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns..."
This is when Macbeth remarks that murders have been committed before, but now ghosts appear to disturb him. This ghost frightens him more than the murder.
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"What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out my eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"
Macbeth says this when he is shaken and feels his guilt at murdering the king.
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"Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood."
This is when Macbeth returns from having slain Duncan with the bloody daggers and Lady Macbeth instructs him to return with them and smear the blood on the guards of the slain king.
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"Mine eyes are made the fools of the other senses Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still; And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,"
In this quote, Macbeth senses the horrible deed he is about to commit and imagines that he sees Duncan, but he realises that his guilt is working on him, creating fear in his heart.
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This is when Macbeth remarks that murders have been committed before, but now ghosts appear to disturb him. This ghost frightens him more than the murder.

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"Blood hath been shed ere now./Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear./but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns..."

Card 3

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Macbeth says this when he is shaken and feels his guilt at murdering the king.

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Card 4

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This is when Macbeth returns from having slain Duncan with the bloody daggers and Lady Macbeth instructs him to return with them and smear the blood on the guards of the slain king.

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Card 5

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In this quote, Macbeth senses the horrible deed he is about to commit and imagines that he sees Duncan, but he realises that his guilt is working on him, creating fear in his heart.

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