10.31.07

In Macbeth, one can find several different motifs. These are some of the ones that i found.

1. Macbeth
2. Lady Macbeth
3. Bloody hand
4. England


Through out the play, one can realize that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through a different process of changing. Macbeth changes from feeling guilty to feeling apethetic about the things he does. However, Lady Macbeth, who persuaded MAcbeth into the murders, feels guilty later on. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth represents different people who changes in the opposite ways.
The bloody hand represents the guilt that Macbeth feels. Through out the play, one can notice the difference of the guilt of Macbeth through what he says about his bloody hand. At first, he feels so guilty that he says even the ocean could not wash his hand, and turn the ocean red. However, later on in the play he says that he does not care about his bloody hand. Also, the hand represents the people.
In the play, there is a moment where the play takes place in England when Macduff runs away to England to escape Macbeth. There he finds Malcom who also fled after his father died, and there is a peaceful moment in the play, where they escaped from evil Macbeth, and there is a king who can heal anything. This comes after a scene of a mother and a son. The mother and son are both very peaceful, even when they were talking about something tragetic. When they die after their peaceful scene, and Macduff is informed, ironically, the reaction of Macduff is to not give up and fight Macbeth, but also to be sorrow like a man, which referes being sorrow to something good, instead of something not good, which makes England a place without evil.