In this passage William Shakespeare uses imagery to demonstrate the horrible change in the Macbeth. The imagery that Shakespeare used is a “river of origin” that Macbeth has walked into very far. Macbeth saying, “I am in blood/Stepp’d in so far, that I should wade no more, /Returning were as tedious as go o’er (3.4.167-169),” testifies that all he has left is ambition and violence and he understands it. Macbeth knows that he has walked too far into the river of blood and there is no point in going backward; if he comes back he cannot return to his old self. Macbeth says, “strange things I have in head, that will to hand; /which must be acted ere they may be scann’d (3.4.170-171),” shows that Macbeth is going to drown in the bloodline, and everything he catches in his brain is tracked with blood. This imagery of blood is connected to the play and the characters, especially to Macbeths
In this passage William Shakespeare uses imagery to demonstrate the horrible change in the Macbeth. The imagery that Shakespeare used is a “river of origin” that Macbeth has walked into very far. Macbeth saying, “I am in blood/Stepp’d in so far, that I should wade no more, /Returning were as tedious as go o’er (3.4.167-169),” testifies that all he has left is ambition and violence and he understands it. Macbeth knows that he has walked too far into the river of blood and there is no point in going backward; if he comes back he cannot return to his old self. Macbeth says, “strange things I have in head, that will to hand; /which must be acted ere they may be scann’d (3.4.170-171),” shows that Macbeth is going to drown in the bloodline, and everything he catches in his brain is tracked with blood. This imagery of blood is connected to the play and the characters, especially to Macbeths