Macbeth: Blood

Question 1

Act 2 Scene 2

neptune ocean

Answer 1

‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?’No…
- BLOOD, GUILT, MADNESS
- LNK perfumes of Arabia
- straight after killing Duncan

Macbeth

Question 2

Act 2 Scene 2

hand colour

Answer 2

‘My hands are of your colour; but I shame / to wear a heart so white’
- BLOOD, GUILT, VIOLENCE
- ironic LNK to resembled my father
- LNK to end of the play

LM

Question 3

Act 3 Scene 4

kant gory

Answer 3

‘Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake/They gory locks at me’
- BLOOD, GUILT, BANQUO, SUPERNATURAL, MADNESS,
- ‘gory’- bloody
- Macbeth thinks its a public exchange
- CONT: some versions have it as a real thing, some have it in Macbeths head (Ian McKellan) LNK dagger

Macbeth

Question 4

Act 3 Scene 4

tedious amount of blood

Answer 4

’ I am in blood/Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more/ Returning were as tedious as go o’er’
- BLOOD, GUILT
- so far into killing/pool of blood that no point stopping now

Macbeth

Question 5

Act 5 Scene 1

old man lots of blood

Answer 5

‘Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him’
- BLOOD, GUILT
- ‘so much blood’ - refers to other murders because of him

LM

Question 6

Act 5 Scene 1

LNK to neptune (not Arabia)

Answer 6

‘What, will these hands ne’er be clean?’
- BLOOD, GUILT, MADNESS
- LNK to Macbeth earlier
- LM is mad

LM

Question 7

Act 5 Scene 1

arabia

Answer 7

‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
- BLOOD GUILT
- LNK to Neptune quote
- LM is going crazy

LM