Act 4 Scene 3

In this chapter, there was a lot of imagery of disease and death. "To offer up a weak, poor innocent lamb, t'appease an angry god."(Page180) Malcolm says this to warn Macduff that Macbeth will probably kill him next. "It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds."(Page182) This symbolism of injury is to show how bad Scotland is getting under Macbeth's rule. "That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms."(Page 184) This quote is significant because it symbolizes how Macbeth seems so innocent compared to other tyrants. Malcolm is the one who says this, and it is at this time that Macduff tell him that he needs to take what is rightfully his. Then they begin to talk about a disease that is called "the King's Evil." Malcolm says that this disease is not curable by anyone else but Macbeth by hanging a gold coin around their neck, and that Macbeth has a healing blessing. "The dead man's knell is there scarce asked for who, and good men's lives expire before the flowers in their caps, dying or ere they sicken."(Page 192) This is the quote where Ross enters and tells them how Scotland really is and how everyone is dying of sickness. "Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer, to add the death of you."(Page 194) This is where Ross tells Macduff that his wife and children were brutally murdered, and this quote is symbolic in showing that they were innocently murdered to hurt Macduff.

Act4 scenes 1-2

The imagery seen the most these scenes are: planting, and doubles. In scene 1, the first piece of imagery that really sticks out is "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."(Page 158) This is obviously a reference to doubles. "Two fold-balls," (Page 168) is also a reference to doubles. The third apparition, which is a crowned child with a tree in his hand, is a symbol of planting. "Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root?"(Page166) This imagery of planting shows that Macbeth is grounded in his decision, and will not give up his throne. "The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand."(Page 170) HE is saying that he will go with his gut instinct and act on his thoughts quickly. "What, you egg! Young fry of treachery!"(Page 178) This quote stands out in my mind as planting because Macduff's son was a younger version of Macduff, and was still growing, like an egg.

Act III Scenes 1-4

"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" This is a big indicator to the fact that Macbeth is going crazy. "that on the torture of the mind to lie." (page 124 But I think that the most important symbolism in this little section is the scene in which Banquo dies, and it becomes dark. Then there is the fact that Lady Macbeth is slowly starting to feel guilty, and Macbeth is feeling less guilty.

the rest of Act III

In this chapter, the symbolism that I thought was very prominent, and that was disease/injury. "Then Comes my fit again." (Page 134) "With trenched gashes on his head; the last a death to nature." (Page 134) "Never shake thy gory locks at me." (Page 136) "Painting of your fear." (Page 136) All of these quotes show how ill Macbeth is becoming as the ghost of Banquo appears and disappears before him. "I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing to those that know me." (page 138) This is Macbeth trying to shake off what just happened and say that his illness is not a big deal. Then, it becomes apparent that Macbeth has ruined the feast finally when Lady Macbeth said "You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, with most admired disorder." (Page 140)then there after that Macbeth continues to get worse.

Act II symbolism

The most prominent symbolism that I saw in this act was mainly that of sleep, death/injury,clothing,and disease.
The first reference to clothing is when an English tailor, and that he clothes people, and the irony is that he asks the king to be woken up, which ties into a reference of sleep. The fact that he is a tailor is significant, since he clothes people, and at this time Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are playing Duncan and have killed him. Another reference to clothes is on page 96, "And when we have our naked frailties hid, that suffer in exposure, let us meet, and question this most bloody piece of work, to know it further." The meaning of this quote is that they should meet and talk of the matter again, when they are clothed and more well hidden. "Get on your nightgown," page 84, refers to Lady Macbeth telling her husband to act normal and have their nightclothes on to show that they were asleep, clearing them of the crime.
"The candles are all out," is a great reference to darkness in scene I. Another great piece of symbolism in scene I is disease on page 76,"A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" This is when Macbeth sees the dagger and decides that he does not want to kill Duncan, and this hints to the fact that he is going crazy. The next symbolism that follows this quote is one of death also on page 90, "I go, and it is done:the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons me to heaven, or to hell."
Then there is also some symbolism in water, when Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to just wash his hands off like it is nothing. The truth is that they truly cannot escape what they have done, because we will see how they will go crazy in the end, like we saw in the play, and their crimes will catch up to them.

Act I scenes IV-Act II

In this section of Act I, there is a lot of night symbolism in the quote on page 52, "Come, thick night, and pale thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry 'Hold, hold!'" This quote is said by lady Macbeth, and in this she is praying to let go of her womanly features, and to be ruthless and cutthroat. Then there is also a reference to death and injury on page 60, "Assassination, blood, plague, murderer, knife." All of these words, in a monologue done by Macbeth symbolizes that the plot to kill Duncan is thinking about not going through this plan. Then we also see a sleep symbolized in scene VII, when Lady Macbeth is going through her plan to kill Duncan by getting his guards drunk. Page 61, "A limbec only: when in swinish sleep; When we have marked with blood those sleepy too." This also emphasizes, the common theme of death which we see a lot of in this play.

ACT I scenes I-III

In act 1 Scene 3 there is a good reference to sleep on page 32 "Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid." This is basically where the witches are kind of bragging to one another on what they did to humans, and one which said that she would put a curse on some woman's husband, because the woman wouldn't give her any chestnuts. Then there is also symbolism of clothes, and how things are not as they seem, and this holds true to Duncan, since we can see he is a bad judge of character and trusted MacDonwald. "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" (Page 40) This is just where Macbeth is questioning why he is the Thane of Cawdor, why MAcDonwald is still alive. There is also another piece of symbolism to clothes by Banquo on page 42 "New honours come upon him, like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould but with the aid of use." This is basically Banquo saying that he doesn't think that Macbeth is deserving of his new position as the Thane of Cawdor. There is also another reference to injury on page 28, "Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements." This is Macbeth saying how he cut off Macdonwald's head and mounted it on a wall. The basic symbolism that was seen the most in these scenes were: clothes, injury/death, and a reference to sleep. I think that clothing will continue to be one of the most common, and I say this because as we saw from the play, Macbeth and his lady deceive king Duncan, and deceit has to be clothed. Also, we can take from the play that injury and death will also be key images.