FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Duncan’s body
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a floating dagger
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blood on his hands
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nothing but darkness
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Detailed explanation-1: -He wonders whether what he sees is real or a “dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain” (2.1. 38–39). Continuing to gaze upon the dagger, he thinks he sees blood on the blade, then abruptly decides that the vision is just a manifestation of his unease over killing Duncan .
Detailed explanation-2: -When he is about to kill Duncan, Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air. Covered with blood and pointed toward the king’s chamber, the dagger represents the bloody course on which Macbeth is about to embark.
Detailed explanation-3: -Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Detailed explanation-4: -Few visual moments are as strange as the scene at the beginning of act two, in which Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air, apparently leading him to Duncan’s bedchamber. This hallucination provokes one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches: “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”