TWO QUOTES WITH EXPLANATION
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 incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Explanation- Macbeth says this in Act 2, scene 2, lines 55–61. He just murdered Duncan, and the crime was by supernatural portents. Now he hears a mysterious knocking on his gate, which seems to promise doom. The importance of Macbeth’s crime has awakened in him a powerful sense of guilt that will hound him throughout the play. Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him—that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red—will stay with him until his death. Lady Macbeth’s response to this speech will be her prosaic remark, “A little water clears us of this deed”
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Explaintion- These words are spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 5, scene 1, lines 30–34, as she sleepwalks through Macbeth’s castle on the night of his battle against Macduff and Malcolm.. When Macbeth believed his hand was bloodstained earlier in the play, Lady Macbeth had told him, “A little water clears us of this deed” . Now, however, she too sees blood. She is completely undone by guilt and goes mad. It may be a reflection of her mental and emotional state that she is not speaking in verse; this is one of the few moments in the play when a major character strays from a normal . And her delusion that there is a bloodstain on her hand furthers the play’s use of blood as a symbol of guilt. “What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account?” she asks, asserting that as long as her and her husband’s power is secure, the murders they committed cannot harm them
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 incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Explanation- Macbeth says this in Act 2, scene 2, lines 55–61. He just murdered Duncan, and the crime was by supernatural portents. Now he hears a mysterious knocking on his gate, which seems to promise doom. The importance of Macbeth’s crime has awakened in him a powerful sense of guilt that will hound him throughout the play. Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him—that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red—will stay with him until his death. Lady Macbeth’s response to this speech will be her prosaic remark, “A little water clears us of this deed”
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Explaintion- These words are spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 5, scene 1, lines 30–34, as she sleepwalks through Macbeth’s castle on the night of his battle against Macduff and Malcolm.. When Macbeth believed his hand was bloodstained earlier in the play, Lady Macbeth had told him, “A little water clears us of this deed” . Now, however, she too sees blood. She is completely undone by guilt and goes mad. It may be a reflection of her mental and emotional state that she is not speaking in verse; this is one of the few moments in the play when a major character strays from a normal . And her delusion that there is a bloodstain on her hand furthers the play’s use of blood as a symbol of guilt. “What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account?” she asks, asserting that as long as her and her husband’s power is secure, the murders they committed cannot harm them