Macbeth Dagger Soliloquy Flashcards
Is this a dagger which I see before me…
the handle toward my hand? 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?
I see thee yet…
in form as palpable as this which now I draw.
Thou marshall’st me…
the way that I was going
And such an…
instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are…
made the fools o’ the other senses
Or else worth…
all the rest; I see these still
Or else worth…
all the rest; I see these still
And on thy blade…
and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before
There is no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs this to mine eyes.
Now o’er the…
one half-world nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep
witchcraft celebrates…
pale Hecat’s off’rings; and wither’d Murder
