d that “the moon is down,” and “There’s husbandry in heaven,/ their candles are all out” (2.1). As Macbeth awaits the signal to make his way to Duncan’s chamber, he sees a floating dagger and proclaims, “Come, let me clutch thee./ I have thee not, and yet I see thee still./ 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?” (2.1). This confuses and frightens Macbeth that a bloody dagger is leading him to Duncan’s chamber. He says, “Thou marshall’st me the way I was going;/ And such an instrument I was to use” (2.2) “And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,/ Which was not so before./ There’s no such thing:/ It is the bloody business which informs/ Thus to mine eyes” (2.2). This apparition is actually leading Macbeth to evil. After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth begins to fear his friend Banquo because of the witches’ prophecy that Banquo will “get kings” (2.1). Because of previous unnatural events, Macbeth feels fear and guilt that drive him to darker and more evil actions to cover his past misdeeds. He says, “There is none but he/ whose being I do fear” (3.1) and orders Banquo to be murdered. At a banquet later, Macbeth encounters yet another unnatural image when he sees Banquo’s ghost. He is so scared that he proclaims “Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves/ shall never tremble: or be alive again,” (3.4). This image causes him to act in a wild manner, now fearful and paranoid of everyone.Macbeth’s wife, as well, has become paranoid. She thinks she sees things that are not actually present. She thinks Duncan’s blood is all over her hands and cries, “Out, damned spot! Out I say!” (5.1). She goes around the castle raving about blood and murder. ...
