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Example:
"Ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous
seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white."
(Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 59-63).
Explanation:
Literally, it does not require an ocean to wash blood from one's hand. Nor can the blood on one's hand turn the green
ocean red. The hyperbole works to illustrate the guilt Macbeth feels at the brutal murder of his king and kinsmen.
 
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