Shakespeare uses vivid imagery to create powerful scenes and emotions. He also includes archetypes, which are universales symbols or character types.

🖼️ What is Imagery?
Imagery is language that appeals to the senses — it helps readers and audiences visualize and feel what’s happening.

Recurring Imagery in Macbeth:

Blood: Symbolizes guilt and violence.
“Out, damned spot!” – Lady Macbeth

Ill-fitting clothes: Represent stolen or unearned power.
  “...like a giant’s robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.”

Babies/Children: Reflect innocence and lost future.
Macbeth’s fear of Banquo’s sons becoming kings.