William Shakespeare used the sleep/trance motif as the most important motif in Macbeth as evident by when he saw the bloody dagger, when he saw himself being king, and when he saw the ghost of Banquo. Foundationally, William Shakespeare used the sleep/trance motif as the most important motif in Macbeth as evident by when he saw the bloody dagger. One example of this is when he imagined a dagger floating in front of him and it made him realise he had to kill King Duncan. When he sees the dagger, it makes him draw out his own dagger, the same one that killed King Duncan. Here, Macbeth is starting to go crazy and you start to see how crazy he is becoming. We see this in Act 2 where he says, “My eyes are either made fools by my other senses or …show more content…
When he sees the dagger, this was the start of him going crazy and he begins to question his own sanity. He says to himself that sane people only see things like this when they are asleep (2.1.22). William Shakespeare used the sleep/trance motif as the most important motif in Macbeth as evident by when he saw himself being king. A key example of this is when he was with the witches, and the witches told him that he would be king. This made him see a vision of where he was the King and made him realize what he had to do. ”A well to do gentlemen, and to be king is no more possible than to be Thane of Cawdor”(1.3.7). In Act 3 this shows the viewer/us, that for him to be king is nothing more than to be Thane of Cawdor, which he already is (1.3.7). William Shakespeare used the sleep/trance motif as the most important motif in Macbeth as evident by when he saw the ghost of Banquo. In Act 3 scene 4 we see that the ghost of Banquo enters the dining hall that only Macbeth can see and no one else can see him so people think Macbeth is going crazy. Macbeth says “The table is full” (3.4.49). This demonstrates to us that he can see the ghost of Banquo in his seat and no one else