We explored the shifting meaning of blood and water imagery in Act III. Joshua parsed and explained the famous quote of Macbeth,"I am in blood steeped so far"etc in terms of symbolism and imagery and then discussed how this soliloquy marks the play as a tragedy of character more than a tragedy of Fortune or Fate. We further discussed how the appearance of Banquo's ghost is a further example of the motif of the imaginary and the real or appearance and reality as we are left to speculate whether the ghost is "real" or whether it is a manifestation of Macbeth's guilty conscience.