Romeo and Juliet

Explain how ​the knife/the dagger ​is a symbol?

Act 4 scene 1-5

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The dagger is a symbol of life and death, possible, more accurately..... love and death. Juliet uses the knife figuratively to make a point.... to threaten her own life.

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