THE IMAGERY OF BLOOD IN MACBETH AND HASSAN

Abstract

Unlike Macbeth, Flecker’s play has blood of bright colour and not the ‘sickly smear’. When he was writing this play, Flecker was terminally ill with tuberculosis in which a patient coughs up a lot of blood. It is possible that
Flecker imaginatively transported his blood images to his play and metaphorically, it can be said that he wrote Hassan with his own blood.