Good point, what would you catagorise as cliched? Generally sensationalising the experience with fairly visceral adjectives? Im linking to Macbeth so I plan to personify the blood in someway, as if its truly a part of that person and also use it to symbolise the corruption.
I've written the first 10 or so pages but here's the basic gist of it.
It's a political thriller with many elements appropriated from Shakespeares 'Macbeth'; such as the weather patterns, light and dark imagery and themes such as insomnia. The central theme in my text is that 'power corrupts'...