Macbeth Themes

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would,” like the poor car I’ th’ adage?” (Shakespeare 365 lines 41-45)
Feeling guilty before Macbeth murders Duncan, he envisions a dagger dripping of blood. Doubting if it’s imaginary or real, he is lead into Duncan’s room and draws his own dagger. “Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” “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?” “As this which now I draw. Thou marsal’st me the way that I was going.” (Shakespeare 370 lines 32-42) By the guilt of murdering Duncan, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth see their hands covered in blood and feel as if they won’t come clean. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” (Shakespeare 373 lines 58-61) After hiring murders to kill Banquo, he begins to see his ghost as well. “Is he ...

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