violence

• At the end: "dead butcher"
• At the start: "from the nave to the chops"
• Banquo's murder: "Blood will have blood" = violence will only lead to more violence. Blood has heavy connotations of dealing damage and dying. It foreshadows violence will only stop when Macbeth dies showing a never ending cycle. It shows his guilt as he will have to keep killing
• Macduff family: "pretty little chickens"
• Duncan muder: "I could not say amen!"
• Duncan murder: "an owl shrieks"
• His bloody reign: "tyrant" "butcher" "bring me my amour"
• Bloody nature: "it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds"