The presence of blood is found throughout the play Macbeth and continues to change each time that it is introduced. The significant changes within the meaning of blood revolve around the events that take place throughout the sequence of Macbeth, like war and the foretelling of the three weird sisters, making its meaning never constant and always changing. The always changing image of blood appears as honoring, maliciousness and justice, evenly flowing into each other in the order as they appear. The sight of blood is not only presented by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, even though most of it is provided by them, but it is also shown through other characters as well, for example at the end of the play, Macduff spills the blood of the guilty by murdering Macbeth.
At first the blood represented in Macbeth could have been seen as a show of honor. Beginning with the battle between the Scots and the Norwegian invaders, as described by the wounded captain in Act 1, scene 2, the blood represents the honor of a glorious battle, and the victory for the Scots. But even more so, the feeling that the blood gives can be debatable to change to the feeling of distrust of loyalty, due to the deceiving actions of the original Thane of Cawdor as said in Act 1, scene 2, lines 63 through 64 “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive... go pronounce his present death….”
To continue with the flow of the story, the maliciousness of blood presents itself in the story immediately after the death of the original Thane of Cawdor and the awarding of the title Thane of Cawdor to Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s greed eventually gets the best of them, and they turn to planning the death of King Duncan. “I have done the deed,” Macbeth said in Act 2, scene 2, line 14, proving he is guilty of murder. Macbeth and his greed continue to devastate the kingdom with blood, eventually his fear and cowardness gets the best of him, when he kills his best friend, Banquo, and the Macduff family in a...