Macbeth Symbols

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Visions and hallucinations
A number of times in Macbeth, Macbeth sees or hears strange things: the floating dagger, the voice that says he is murdering sleep, and Banquo's ghost.
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Blood
Blood is always closely linked to violence, but over the course of Macbeth, blood comes to symbolize something else; guilt. Death and killing happen in an instant, but blood remains, and stains.
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Sleep
When he murders Duncan, Macbeth thinks he hears a voice say "Macbeth does murder sleep" Sleep symbolizes innocence, purity, and peace of mind, and in killing Duncan Macbeth actually does murder sleep: Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk, and Macbeth is
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Light and Darkness
Macbeth responds to the news of Lady Macbeth's presumed suicide by proclaiming "out, out brief candle", turning the candle's flame has become a metaphor for her short life and sudden death. Similarly, Banquo's torchlight (the one that illuminates him
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Weather
A number of unnatural occurrences in the natural realm accompanies Macbeth’s grotesque murder spree. From the thunder and lightning that, accompany the witches’ appearances to the terrible storms that rage on the night of Duncan’s murder, these viol
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Blood is always closely linked to violence, but over the course of Macbeth, blood comes to symbolize something else; guilt. Death and killing happen in an instant, but blood remains, and stains.

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Blood

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When he murders Duncan, Macbeth thinks he hears a voice say "Macbeth does murder sleep" Sleep symbolizes innocence, purity, and peace of mind, and in killing Duncan Macbeth actually does murder sleep: Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk, and Macbeth is

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Macbeth responds to the news of Lady Macbeth's presumed suicide by proclaiming "out, out brief candle", turning the candle's flame has become a metaphor for her short life and sudden death. Similarly, Banquo's torchlight (the one that illuminates him

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Card 5

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A number of unnatural occurrences in the natural realm accompanies Macbeth’s grotesque murder spree. From the thunder and lightning that, accompany the witches’ appearances to the terrible storms that rage on the night of Duncan’s murder, these viol

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