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Use Of Hallucination In Macbeth

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Macbeth and his Hallucinations
In the Shakespeare play Macbeth, Macbeth has a number of hallucinations that stir a distinctive role throughout the play. Every hallucination occurs due to Macbeth’s past or his present life. Before the killing of King Duncan, Macbeth hallucinates a dagger before him. “Is this 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” (Shakespeare, 2.1.33-35). Shakespeare uses the dagger hallucination to for play the very bloody and gruesome scene that has yet to come in the play. The succeeding hallucination was of Banquo’s ghost during a celebratory dinner for Macbeth’s rise to the throne. “Thou canst not say i did it. Never shake thy Gory Locks at

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