FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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His brain being too hot
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His heart becoming cold
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Stress
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Lysergic acid diethylamide
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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: -Macbeth speaks this line when Banquo’s ghost appears to him at the banquet. Macbeth’s vision of the ghost reveals his guilt over ordering the murder of Banquo and his young son. His sense of guilt is so powerful that he loses his sense of reality and cannot be sure whether he is having a vision or not.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Just before the murder, Macbeth has an ominous vision of the dagger covered by Duncan’s blood that points at the room where the King is sleeping. “Is this a dagger which I see before me?” he asks. This hallucination is the first one in a row of similar visions prompted by guilt and remorse.
Detailed explanation-5: -heat-oppress’d brain (7) i.e., fevered. In the Renaissance, heat was considered a fluid that could literally press on the brain and cause fever and delirium. Back to Soliloquy Annotations.