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  • | supernatural visits & spirits
    ‘Is this a dagger’ (2,1)
    • MB has visions throughout play, eg dagger b4 he kills Duncan
    • cld be psych or they could be premonitions (feelings that smth bad is going to happen) and MB is experiencing the supernatural.
    • bc he has interacted w/ the witches, the aud might think that he has made himself vulnerable to evil.
  • 'Unsex me here'
    • Lady Macbeth calls on spirits: ‘Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’ (1,5).
    • She uses imperative language (‘come’ and ‘unsex’) which suggests that she thinks she has control over them. This labels her as an evil character who wants supernatural beings to help her.
    • We don’t know whether this is something she has done before or whether the opportunity to take the crown has made her want to try to contact them.