Throughout this act, Macbeth has trouble sleeping because he has a guilty conscience. His soul is haunted by Banquo’s ghost. The blood represent the numerous murders that have taken place. Blood is a symbol for their guilty conscience.
Macbeth: “Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, (...) Duncan is in his grave; After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well (...)” (p.47 L. 17)
Macbeth: “Come, seeling night scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale! [...]” (p. 48 L.48)
Macbeth: “The table round. There’s blood upon thy face.” (p.50 L.13)
Macbeth: “ Blood hath been shed ere now, i’th’olden time, ere humane statute purged the gentle weal; ay, and since too, murders have been performed too terrible for the ear [...]” (p.53 L.76)
Macbeth: “ It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move trees to speak; augures and understood relations have by maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth the secret’st man of blood. What is the night?” (p.55 L.123)
Lady Macbeth: “You lack the season of all natures, sleep.” Macbeth: “Come, we’ll to sleep. My strange and self abuse is the initiate fear that wants hard use. We are yet but young in deed.” (p.56 L. 142)
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