We continued to note the continuity of blood and water imagery in Act IV as Lady Macbeth sleep walks while pantomiming washing her hands moaning "Out damned spot." We compared the use of washing and blood imagery here with the use of this imagery in Acts I and II where Lady Macbeth insists "a little water washes us of this deed." Further we focused on the gender fluidity of Shakespeare's characters. Boys played the parts of women. Thus, in this play a boy plays the part of Lady Macbeth who displays the traditional male gender role of violent ambition. In other words, we see a boy playing the part of a woman playing a man. I discussed how this fluidity appears in other Shakespeare plays and how the male/woman imagery pervades this play. As we are working on the interpretation of symbolic metaphors, Nina then studied and discussed Macbeth's soliloquy wherein he compares himself to an aged withered tree ,his body strong but his soul withered in blood.