The Blood Theme In Macbeth

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little water clears us of this deed,” is Lady MacBeth’s response to this situation. She thinks washing the blood off their hands will also wash the guilt off their minds. Nothing so complicated is ever that easy.
Lady MacBeth soon learns that guilt is heavier than water. She is in a state of dementia and believes there is still Duncan’s blood on her hands. She keeps trying to wash this imaginary blood away. “Yet here’s a spot/…Out, damned spot out I say! One. Two. /…Yet who would have thought the old man/ to have had so much blood on him?” (5.1. 33, 37, 40-42). She realizes that she can never conquer the guilt which is eating her away from the inside. She cannot forgive and forget what she has done. “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All/ the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little/ hand. O, O, O!” (5.1. 53-55).
MacBeth has a discussion with the Lady MacBeth’s doctor concerning her ...

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