MACBETH. 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?
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, scene i
What evidence suggests that the dagger Macbeth sees is an illusion?
O A. And take the present horror from the time, / Which now suits with
it.
OB. A false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
O C. Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my
hand?
D. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;/ And such an
instrument I was to use
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After Macbeth has 'seen' the dagger before him, the handle towards his hand, he then begins to doubt himself. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. This line indicates that Shakespeare intended the actor playing Macbeth to attempt to pick up the dagger, only to find that it's made of air.
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