Today's lesson focused on identifying foreshadowing , the motif of blood imagery, and supernatural imagery. At the end of scene (i) Macbeth in his famous soliloquy asks an empty stage ,"is this a dagger which I see before me." We discussed what the bloody dagger foreshadows and its appearance as a manifestation of Macbeth's conscience. Having introduced the image of blood, we then contrasted how this metaphor reflects the disparate characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as Lady Macbeth insists that a "little water clears us of this deed" while Macbeth famously questions whether all of the ocean's water will wash this blood /clean from my hand?" We continue to work on parsing the play's metaphors and then explaining how the metaphors relate to events in the play or the characters .Last, Nina interestingly raised the issue of whether Macbeth is truly manipulated by his wife or was already strongly predisposed to murderous ambition once the witches planted in his psyche the prospect that he would be king.