Macbeth Imagery In all of Shakespeare’s plays he uses many forms of imagery. Imagery is the art of making images, the products of imagination. In the play “Macbeth”, Shakespeare applies the many images, most of which are of clothing, blood and darkness. Each one seems to contain an important symbol of the play. Symbols that the reader must understand if they are to interpret either the passage or the play as a whole. The second, most important chain of imagery used to add to the atmosphere is that of the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy a special atmosphere must be created to show the darkness and blackness in a tragedy. In R