Quotes

• Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards my hand

  • Motif of death: the dagger therefore signifies not only death buh Macbeth heinous and barbaric nature, and he beginning to become a tyrant
  • Rhetorical questions on his soliloquy paired with the hallucinations signifies the beginning of his mental decline. His conscience has been plagued with guilt because of his treacherous act of regicide