Chase Pierce Mr. Shellhorn ENG3U 28 February 2018 Macbeth’s Character Reveal In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Act 2 Scene 1 soliloquy illustrates the conflict he has within himself. He is torn with completing his darkest desire or following his morals. Macbeth battles this conflict until his conscious is flooded with dark desires, his call upon evil to wash away his good, and his desire for power. At the beginning of the soliloquy, Macbeth’s imagination started to corrupt his mind; he began to hallucinate a bloody dagger floating in front of him, which was the product of his guilty conscious due to his contemplation to kill the king, which is the byproduct of his quest for power. “A dagger of the mind, a false creation/Proceeding from the heat -oppressed brain?” (Shakespeare.2.1.45- 46) He is knowledgeable in that murdering the king is morally wrong and would be disloyal to his king in which he serves, however, he also contemplates with his darker thoughts. His conscience is being vocal, constantly haunting him and trying to persuade him to be loyal to the king and not to go down the path of following his evil intentions. …show more content…
“I see thee still/And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood/Which was not so before.” (52 -53) Observing the bloody dagger he calls upon the forces of evil to purge himself from all the good he has in order to commit the act of murder, which he could not do until his mind was taken over completely by dark intentions. “; witchcraft celebrates/Pale Hecate’s offerings; and wither’d murder/Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf” (58-60) His speech turns to a darker and devilish tone, showing the change in his state of