Shakespeare's plays are known to to have a lot of blood and gore in them, especially Titus Andronicus, but we're not talking about that play today. I am talking about The Scottish play, Macbeth. Act 2, Scene 1, Page 2 is a great example of blood and gore.
In Act 2, Scene 1, Page 2 Macbeth says "I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.", Macbeth realizes that the dagger is a hallucination and he still sees the dagger but now it's covered in blood, this is bloody and gory because it uses the hyperbole "gouts of blood", which is sight imagery, to create a mental image of the dagger in our minds.
In conclusion,
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