Is this a dagger which I see before me?

• point

  P: Macbeth hallucinates a supernatural dagger leading him toward Duncan’s murder, showing his crumbling morality and the influence of dark force
• evidence

  He asks, “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” as he prepares to kill.
• what does the rhetrocial question and visual hallucinatio signal

  The rhetorical question and visual hallucination signal Macbeth’s psychological breakdown 
• what does the direction of the dagger suggest

  that supernatural forces are inviting him to act. 
• what pronoun is used

  second person possessive
• what. does the pronoun show

   (“my hand”) implies both temptation and ownership — the supernatural may guide him, but Macbeth still chooses to reach for it.
• what did audience jn shakespearan tjmes belive?

  supernatural visions as signs of sin or demonic possession. Macbeth’s hallucination would be interpreted as a warning from God or a lure from the Devil.
• shakespears lurpose

  Shakespeare presents the supernatural as a psychological force — it doesn’t make Macbeth evil, but it exposes his weakness. This makes the tragedy more terrifying because the evil seems to come from within.