A shed of Blood

Example 1:

What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The Newest state.
Act I, Scene 2- Duncan


Summary: Duncan is wondering who the bloody man is and he is judging this man by his weak condition in which he is in.

Comment: In this case, the word "blood" is referring to someone who has been attacked and is weak and covered in blood

Example 2:


For brave Macbeth,- well he deserves that name, - 
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, 
Which smok'd with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carv'd out his passage
Act 1 Scene 2- Sergeant 

Summary: The sergeant said that Macbeth deserves the name and that him branding someone wasn't pretty

Comment: In this case, the word "blood" refers to the description of the execution which was "bloody"



Example 3:


So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go, get him surgeons.
Act 1, Scene 2- Duncan


Summary: Duncan is saying that the use of words are like wounds and they are disrespectful.

Comment: In this case, the word "blood" refers to the surgeons because usually surgeons deal with blood.


Example 4:


If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair 
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature?...
Act 1, Scene 3- Macbeth


Summary: Macbeth is questioning why he is yielding to a suggestion that has a horrid image that he disagrees with.

Comment: In this case, the word "blood" refers to Macbeth's heart that knock at his ribs due to the suggestion.