FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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Thank goodness that I’m imagining this dagger so I don’t have to kill the king.
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Is this a real dagger in front of me? Or only a hallucination?
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The dagger will lead me past Duncan’s room and carry me to my wife
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Has someone planted this dagger here as a warning not to kill the king?
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Detailed explanation-1: -Macbeth speaks this famous soliloquy when he is taken over by his guilt and growing insanity for killing Duncan. His imagination brings forth the picture of a dagger in front of him, which symbolizes the impending murder. Macbeth has made his decision to kill the King and take the crown as his own.
Detailed explanation-2: -Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Detailed explanation-3: -If I am going to do this murder, it would be best that I do it quickly. If the Murder of the King could be like a fishing net and grab all the possible consequences at once, I would do it. And I would even give up the after life for it. But for crimes like this there are still punishments in this life.
Detailed explanation-4: -What does Macbeth see at the beginning of his soliloquy? He sees a dagger which directs him toward Duncan.
Detailed explanation-5: -"Dagger of the mind” can read in two ways. First, there’s the literal contrast of tangible reality and Macbeth’s imagination. Second, you have metaphor of Macbeth’s guilt-and doubt-manifesting itself as a vision as he waits upon the signal from his wife.