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Annotation Of Macbeth

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Shakespeare's plays are known for being one of the four genres; comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. Out of these four, his tragedies are the most popular because of their take on the once present day politics and how they were not only seen as entertainment but also as a way to spread information. Macbeth, one of his most famous plays, is a tragedy that follows a character through his path of becoming king. Apart from Macbeth being a tragedy and being Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, this play is also completely open for interpretation. Directors around the world have been remaking this play and have kept many aspects of it the same while also slightly changing it from the original. The dagger in Act two, scene one should be shown because it …show more content…

This dagger is tempting him to grab it and he says “Thou marshal’st me the way that I was going, And such an instrument I was to use” (2.1.54-55). This line shows how Macbeth already had the plan to use a dagger, and now his mind is tricking him into seeing that same weapon that was to be used. His intentions here are clear because the dagger is involved. In Roman Polanski’s version of this scene in his 2010 remake shows a dagger in front of macbeth. When Macbeth says “I see thee yet” and there is a dagger visible to the audience it makes Macbeth’s scheme to murder Duncan more realistic. With the murder weapon visible to a viewer it not only makes the murder seem much more possible but it also shows that Macbeth’s mind is set on killing Duncan to become …show more content…

This theme continued into act two by showing how Macbeth is no longer relying on fate to give him the role of king and has now taken it into his own hands. When first imagining the dagger, Macbeth says “A dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain? (2.1.50-51). His “heat-oppressèd brain” represents the fear he has at this moment and the worry he has about murdering Duncan. This fear was the original factor in Macbeth turning to fate to make him king, but this “false creation” he is seeing contradicts that and shows him what he must do. Similarly, in Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth, when Macbeth says “the handle towards my hand” we actually see the handle facing him and the dagger looking like it could be grabbed (Roman Polanski, 0.12). The fact that the dagger is so clearly angled towards Macbeth it makes it seem like using the dagger is the best option. The direction of the dagger towards Macbeth suggests that it is only right for Macbeth to grab it. Since the dagger was shown in this play, the audience is able to see the daggers angle towards Macbeth. In a play that didn't show the dagger facing Macbeth, such as Rupert Goold’s 2010 version, a viewer would not see how this dagger is inevitably going to be

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In Act 2, Scene 1 Macbeth sees a vision of a bloody dagger pointed toward Duncan. This signals the entrance of dark and twisted ambition into Macbeth’s mind, showing that his greed led him to believe that killing Duncan was reasonable. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.” (Shakespeare 15)

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Duncan announces to Macbeth that he will be staying at Inverness castle. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plan Duncan’s murder, but before killing Duncan, Macbeth has a vision of a bloody dagger and a conversation with himself where he says, “ I see thee still, on thy blade gouts of blood, Which was not so before… It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes” (Shakespeare 2.1.57-61). The idea of the bloody dagger is to point out that there is a temptation and a perfect opportunity to kill Duncan. The dagger is a “false creation” that Macbeth creates in his mind and he sees it covered in blood which gives him the confidence to kill Duncan.

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Right before he murders King Duncan, Macbeth hallucinates a floating dagger, and fearfully states, “Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going (2.1.41).” This quote depicts Macbeth’s dagger floating towards King Duncan’s room which is where the murder will take place. It is important that the dagger leads Macbeth to the room, not guiding him as Macbeth was already heading to King Duncan’s room. This is symbolic as it shows that Macbeth used his own free will to commit the murder. This dagger is just Macbeth’s conscience reassuring him to follow the murder .

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When the text uses the words pointed and toward it means something is in your point of view. Thus, the audience can infer that the dagger was for Macbeth. Another way Macbeth shows this motif is when Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost during the royal dinner. For instance when the narrator says, “Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me” (Act 3 Scene 4).

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Come, let me clutch thee./ I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” (Shakespeare 2.1.44-46).In this quote Macbeth is talking about seeing an imaginary dagger. The dagger can symbolize his guilty conscious. A dagger attack is used when one is being deceitful and traitorous then they attacks a person.

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I have thee not, and yet I see thee still” (2.1.44-46), . He sees the bloody knife The bloody knife that Macbeth sees in his dream and it is is what he knows he is going to use to kill Duncan. Macbeth is hesitant to see the dagger because he is questioning what he sees. The dagger was made because

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I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss’em.” (2.2.11-12). Feeling strongly about the murder, Lady Macbeth wanted to place the murder weapon for Macbeth. She even goes as far as saying “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t.” (2.2.12-13).

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The voices he hears that threaten: “Macbeth shall sleep no more” indicate a relationship between guilt and madness. Therefore, the manifestation of the dagger suggests that he feels guilty because of his attempt to murder Duncan. There are three major transitions of thought. First, he contemplates about the dagger’s existence; the second is the invocations of dark images; finally, there is the bell that cuts off Macbeth’s contemplations. The transitions between topics indicate that while Macbeth feels guilty for the murder, his determination makes him ignore

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Macbeth, by Shakespeare, is a story of a great warrior named Macbeth who was told by three witches that he would become king. This prediction makes him think it is justified to kill the current king and once he is king he believes that he is invincible. In Macbeth, many symbols are used such as a dagger that isn’t there, hallucinations of blood, and ghosts to show the overwhelming guilt that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have over the murders to highlight the theme that guilt can drive people to insanity when kept in secret. First of all, Macbeth is alone and has decided that he is going to kill King Duncan. All of a sudden he sees a dagger but can’t feel it and says, “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still” (Shakespeare 2.1.35).

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This manifestation of the dagger could be caused by Macbeth’s future guilt of killing the king because he has expressed thoughts to Lady Macbeth that Duncan was a good and innocent king. After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth was paranoid and scared so he hurriedly went back to his room and had an illusion that he described as “With all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No This my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red” (Shakespeare 2.2.78-81). After killing King Duncan, he returns to his room and hallucinates a much more large pool of blood on his hand than the sea. Blood is a symbol of the guilt that he is forever scarred on him so that’s why it was hard for him to wash it off because most of the blood was not

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This stage direction is after Macbeth has murdered Duncan. " Daggers" are often seen as ruthless cutthroat weapons, designated for secretive, stealthy assassination plots because it has a convenient size, in comparison to the sword, which is harder to hide. Furthermore, a "dagger" can also symbolise death, defiance, ambition, betrayal, fearlessness, danger and intimidation. One of the dagger was used to symbolise Macbeth, and the other is Lady Macbeth, because once the "dagger" was used, it would need to be discarded so that they will not be caught. In other words, they did it in their own will, and murdering Duncan can be seen as throwing their own sanity away.

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"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" (2.1. 33-35). The use of this soliloquy demonstrates the guilt that Macbeth is feeling before he has even committed the act.

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Macbeth would envision a dagger before him asking himself “is (that) a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand”(act.2 scene.i). The dagger was a metaphor for his ambitions and motivation to make himself king with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth. After King Duncan was killed, Macbeth felt he was evil at that point where he “belief(ed) he (was) to evil to blessed by god”(act.2 scene.ii). The guilt he felt would drive him to the point of madness and brought into question if he was human after that or something that could not be redeemed.

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He feels as though it is urging him to fulfil his desire to become king. Page 45, Act II, scene ii, "Your shape is as real as my own dagger, which I now draw from its sheath. You lead to in the direction I was going (i.e, to Duncan 's room)."Macbeth interprets the dagger as a sign that he shall proceed with his wicked crusade. Consequently, seeing the chimera of a dagger before the murder inspired Macbeth to kill and inherit the

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The audience can now see his desires as well as his ambition. At this point, Macbeth is still hesitant of revealing his true nature, but the audience gets a peek of what he yearns for. In addition, the witches’ predictions are known to be paradoxical, their predictions are never straightforward; they tend to have different interpretations. Macbeth kills King Duncan to obtain the power he was told he’d get. Despite that, the witches never said to kill King Duncan; they told him he would become king.

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