It affects Lady Macbeth in the scene in which she is found sleepwalking and talking to herself after the murders of both Duncan and Banquo. "Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Also, the imagery of blood is present with the witches, or "weird sisters" as they are referred to in the play. It is most evident in the scene where Macbeth visits the witches to seek their insight and his fortune for the future. He is shown three apparitions, one of which is a bloody child that commands him to, "Be bloody, bold and resolute- Although the image of blood deals with most of the characters of the play, nowhere is it more profound than with the main character himself, Macbeth. In the very beginning of the play, it is reported that Macbeth and Banquo are in "reeking wounds." Again blood is haunting Macbeth in act two, in which a visionary dagger is stained with blood. In that same scene, after Duncan has been murdered, Macbeth declares that not even "great Neptune's oceans" will be able to cleanse his hands of the blood that stains them. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No- Next, the image of blood is portrayed when Macbeth calls upon the "bloody and invisible hand" of night to help the murderers he had hired carry out the assassination of Banquo and Fleance, his son. The Macbeth realizes that "blood will have blood," and that his murderous plots will all come to an end when he dies. Finally, at the end of the banquet scene, Macbeth confesses that he is "in blood, stepped in so far that, should wade no more, returning as tedious as to go o"er.".
Yet another form of symbolism used in this play is that of clothing. Clothing has always long been used to hide ones true nature under disguise. The first instance of clothes as imagery occurs in the first act of the play, when Ross and Angus hail Macbeth as Thane of Cawdor.