Macbeth Imagery In all of Shakespeare’s plays he uses many forms of imagery. Imagery is the art of making images, the products of imagination. In the play “Macbeth”, Shakespeare applies the many images, most of which are of clothing, blood and darkness. Each one seems to contain an important symbol of the play. Symbols that the reader must understand if they are to interpret either the passage or the play as a whole. The …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…Macbeth in Act 1 was an agent of order and thus was described with words such as "noble" and "loyal" but when Macbeth became an agent of disorder he was described with words such as "dark" and "devilish". This same character development is true for Scotland which in Act 1 was described as the land of light; but in Act 4 when it became the land of evil was described with diction such as dark and grave like.