Your question is not very clear. Are you looking for just any one symbol from 'Macbeth'? What is the subject of your essay?
In any case, you can cite the following lines from act2 sc.2--Macbeth's sense of guilt and fear as expressed in terms of a symbol of bloody hands:
What hands are here? 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.
'Hand' generally, and blood-stained hands in particular, has been a recurrent symbol in the play representing the fear-stricken, guilt-ridden psyche of the protagonist. Here in these lines, Macbeth feels appalled looking at his bloody hands bearing the traces of his heinous crime. In his visionary fear, Macbeth imagines the conversion of the universal green into one pervading red.
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