Macbeth

• Macbeth as violent

  Unseam’d him from the naves to the chops - semantic field of violence

  disdaining fortune … smoked with blood execution “ - metaphor. I am in blood stepp’d in so far that should i wade no more returning were as tedious - biblical allusion, motif of blood
• Lady Macbeth as loving

  My dearest partner of greatness
• lady Macbeth as emasculating Macbeth

  Wouldst thou … live a coward in thine own esteem

  are you a man? When you durst do it then you were a man
• lady Macbeth as guilty

  out damned spot! out i say! … hell is murky - fragmented language , religious imagery

  all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand - hyperbole