Macbeth

Act II, Scene 1

In his soliloquy, Macbeth hallucinates that he sees a dagger floating in the air. What do you feel causes this illusion?

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Guilt and fear cause the illusion. The "dagger of the mind" that Macbeth sees is not "ghostly" or supernatural, so much as it is a manifestation of the inner struggle that Macbeth feels as he contemplates the regicide.

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