Topic > The Themes of Blood Symbols in Shakespeare's Macbeth

“I heard the owl hoot and the crickets cry. Didn't you say something?" Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth when he goes to see if he has killed Duncan. “The night was unruly. Where we lay, our chimneys were knocked down, and, as they say, groans were heard in the air, strange cries of death, and prophesied with terrible accents of terrible burning and confused new events born at the painful time The dark bird, cried all night. Some say that the Earth was feverish and trembled "(act2.sc3) it was then that Lennox came to Macbeth's castle for a visit and asked them if they had felt the heat of the night. “Dance around the cauldron and throw the poisoned entrails into it. (holding a toad) You will enter first: a toad that has been sitting under a cold rock for a month, oozing poison from its pores.” (act 4.sc1). the witches are taking a stand that will cause Macbeth to witness apparitions or visits to the hills by Fleance and Banquo. “I'll dry him up like hay. Sleep will not hang night or day on the roof of his attic. He will live as a man, forbid. Tired seven nights, nine times nine, he will decline, reach his peak and grow weak. Even if its bark cannot be lost, yet it will be shaken by the storm. Look what I have.”