Question

What evidence leads you to believe that the dagger Macbeth sees is an illusion

Answer 1

what is the story we cant help you without more than just the question

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

old question, answering to close.

this question refers to the play Macbeth. there's a scene in Act 2 Scene 1 in which Macbeth imagines a dagger.

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.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[a bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Answer 5

so the question is asking about evidence that the dagger is an illusion (not real, part of his imagination).

some evidence from the speech I noticed:

- "Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." ---> he tries to grab the dagger, but he cannot get hold of it. that's evidence that the dagger isn't actually real.

- "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" ---> basically, he's questioning why the dagger can't be felt, and pondering whether it the dagger only exists in his imagination. heat-oppressed = attributing the vision to his fever/feverish brain.

- "There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. " ---> "no such thing" in this context means he's saying the dagger doesn't exist. "bloody business" refers to his plot to murder Duncan. "informs thus to mine eyes" ---> is making me see this vision of a dagger. so he's implying that his plot to murder Duncan is making his mind play tricks on him and envision a dagger.