Imagery,+Allusion+and+Symbolism

As you read, add quotations from the play that contain the following symbols, images, and allusions. Be sure to cite quotations correctly with Act, Scene and line numbers. After each quotation, include a short explanation.
 * __ [[image:secretstmanofblood/Macbeth_Raven.jpg width="177" height="98" align="left"]]Imagery, Allusion and Symbolism __**

__**Light and D**__ __**ark Imagery**__  **Banqu****o****:** "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths," (1.3.135-136)
 * Sometimes evil people tell others something that is true in order to make them do evil things.

** Macbeth: ** "Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires." (1.4.57-58)
 * Macbeth does not want the light, or his goodness, to see that he wants to murder King Duncan in order to receive the crown.

The witches predicted they would meet up with Macbeth on another foul day When the weather is stormy and dark, the witches will appear
 * The Witches** "Fair is foul, foul is fair,"
 * Night time is an ending to one day, and the start of a new day. It is a time to refresh your body, forget about your problems and start over. In Macbeth, the voice he heard as he killed Duncan was saying he would sleep no more.

__Macbeth-__ "Still it cried, 'Sleep no more!' to all the house: 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep: and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more!'" (2.2.54-46).
 * The voice is saying that Macbeth will never sleep again, which symbolizes that he will always feel guilt no matter how much time passes and he will never start over again.

Darkness is a symbol of blindness and evil. The most evil and tragic things usually happen during the dark. Nobody can see who commits the crime when there is no light therefore more takes place at nighttime. In the light, or daytime, people feel much more safe. Usually they are more comfortable because they can see what or who is around them.


 * In scene 3 of Act 3 Banquo is murdered. The murder was planned when Macbeth hired two professional murders to kill him while he is on his way home from running errands. Banquo was with his son Fleance and since Macbeth is intimidated by the fact that Banquo's son is next in line for King, he wanted to kill them both. Banquo lit a torch so that they could find their way back to the castle. The murderers saw the two walking towards them because of the light and therefore could easily kill them. Once Banquo was murdered the light went out. In this scenario, the light may have represented either his innocence or his life.


 * Light represents safety, innocence, life, happiness and comfort while darkness represents evil, death, depression and suspicion.
 * Lady Macbeth sends everyone home from the crowning ceremony because Macbeth is talking to Banquo's ghost. It doesn't look like his state will improve so she feels like the townspeople will forget everything happened over sleep.

__**Blood Imagery**__ "They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood" (2.2.63-64) Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to smear the blood from his hands on the guards so it looks like they killed Duncan. __**Religious Allusions**__
 * That at dark no evil deeds can be seen by god.
 * If you do evil deeds you go to hell.(1.7.8)"We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return"
 * =====If Duncan is murdered since he is such a great guy who ever murders him will be punished more than normal.=====

** Sergeant ** :" Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha" (1.2.45) refers to the death of Christ on mount Calvary Golgotha a place of a skull **Macbeth**:" If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well  It were done quickly" (1.7.1) in this is a clear reference to the words spoken by Jesus to Judas in John 13.27: "That thou doest, do quickly." Macbeth is aware of his bond with Judas.

**Lady Macbeth** Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes (1.5.50)

She says this so that she cannot see the deeds that she will commit

Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon.(2.3.72-73) Medusa would turn you to stone. Medusa is in Greek Mythology

ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.(3.2.40-43) Hecate is a goddess of witch craft

Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memories another Golgotha, I cannot tell.(1.2.40-41) Golgotha is a place where Jesus was crucified on the cross

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?(2.2.59-60) Neptune is a god of water in Greek

The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict; Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons (1.2.54-56) Bellona was a Roman goddess of War

__**Animal Imagery**__ Animal imagery is when an animal is used as a symbol. Such as when bats are used to symbolize blindness even though they really aren't blind. "I come Graymalkin, Paddock calls;anon. " refers to the witches companions, demons, and familiar spirits who mingle with witches and represent evil spirits. Greymalkin is a cat and Paddock. Shakespeare uses a cat as a spirit, as cats are significant to witches, a toad portrays their ugliness. "As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion". This refers to Macbeth and Banquo, just as easily as an eagle defeats a sparrows or the lion defeats the hare, Macbeth and Banquo defeated their adversary. The second witch responds "killing swine". Killing swine is meant to kill their neighbors pigs. A practice the witches were accused of performing. Lady Macbeth speaks of the raven, who symbolizes death and quietness.
 * A‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ct 1, Scene 1 **
 * Scene 2 **
 * Scene 3 **
 * Scene 5, line 41 **

"His guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breathSmells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this birdHath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,The air is delicate." (1.6.3-11)This is right after Lady Macbeth has spoke of the raven who symbolizes death as the messenger of evil foreshadowing Duncan's death. Then, these lines are spoken by Banquo to King Duncan about the martlet ironically before his death because he is talking about how inviting the martlet is and how it only nests in safe places such as churches. This is a contrast to the raven, and shows irony because King Duncan is about to die and is not in as safe as a place as it appears.

The owl represents wisdom implying the deed not be done. []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Act 2, Scene 2, line 5 **

"//I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Did you not speak?"// (2.2.20-21) This is after King Duncan has been killed and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are talking about what they have done. While the owl and the crickets supposedly heralded death according to the Elizabethans, the owl also symbolizes wisdom, and since they are nocturnal are seen to "watch over the night" in which case it knows what has taken place to Duncan so it worries Lady Macbeth when she hears the scream of the owl and the cry of the crickets.

"There the grown serpent lies: the worm that's fled"

The worm represents Fleance, the snake Banquo. "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it" (3.2.15)

__**Clothing Imagery**__ > Like strange garments, > Cleave not to their mould > But with the aid of use" (1.3.144-145)
 * A golden round is a crown.
 * "The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" (1.3.110-111) What this is trying to do is give the allusion that Macbeth is literally taking the Thane of Cawdors robes when really it's just referring to him taking his spot as the Thane or Cawdor.
 * "New honors come upon him

__**Mythological Allusions**__ "Or memorize another __Golgotha__". (1.2.44) (Golgotha) "Till that __Bellona's Bridegroom__, lapp'd in proof". (1.2.62) (Bellona's Bridegroom)
 * Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion and the site of execution of criminals. Golgotha was also know as "the place of the skull".
 * They are wanting this battle field to be as famous as Golgotha.
 * Bellona's Bridegroom, Roman goddess of war.
 * They are comparing Macbeth to the Roman goddess of war, with the way he was destroying the enemies on the battle field.

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍"With a new __Gorgon__: do not bid me speak; See and then speak yourselves."‍‍‍‍‍‍ (2.3.79-80)
 * Gorgon, the three Gorgons, were hideous sisters with hair of writhing snakes, it was said if looked at them you would turn to stone
 * Macduff is comparing the sight of the dead King Duncan to the sight of a Gorgon, saying it is hideuos and would turn your insides to stone if possible [[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGN6O5nqcChDJnGopJpv41jnYXAevCVo_trk_6qLnTWySe1Vmc width="238" height="212"]](Gorgon)

__**Kingship/Royalty Imagery**__
 * King is on the battlefield, showing that he is there for his country. (1.2.1-64)
 * "Lest our robes sit easere than our new!" - saying hopefully things will be better then they were before, as the robes be put on the shoulders of the new.
 * "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown" - (3.1.65)
 * "Disire his jewels; and this other's house" (4.4.69)
 * "Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe" (5.2.23
 * "Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff" (5.3.57)
 * "I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl" (5.9.27)

__**Weather Imagery**__ >
 * The weather is stormy, rain and lightning. There is foul air and fog. Implies that something bad or dreadful is going to happen, kind of a forshadow that bad weather happens near the witches.(1.1.1-12)
 * "Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break" - Sargeant. Shows that bad or gloomy weather is relatable imagery to bad things, in this case the battle going on. (1.2.28)
 * Before the scene even begins it says "Thunder, Enter Witches" This goes back to Scene 1 where the stormy weather is realted to the witches and there deeds.(1.3)
 * Second Witch- I'll give thee a wind. In shakespears time, it was believed that witches could control the weather. It shows here again that they are up to no good, so the stromy weather continues. (1.3.12)
 * "Dark night strangles the travelling lamp." The sun did not shine on the day Duncan died (2.4.1-53)
 * The weather is Thundering again, the dark weather always happens when the Witches appear. (3.5)