Internal Conflict In Macbeth Act 2

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The plot of Act 2, Scene 1 shows the internal conflict Macbeth is facing and the speed in which he is devolving. Before the murder, Macbeth sees a dagger floating before him and wonders “[Is the dagger] not, [a] fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or [is it] but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from [his] heat-oppressed brain? [He can see it] yet, in form as palpable as [the dagger] which now [he] draw[s]” (Act 2, Scene 2, lines 36-40).

Macbeth’s indecision is leading him to desperation and delusion when he begs the dagger to “let [him] clutch [it]” (Act 2, Scene 1). The fact that Macbeth is asking permission from an inanimate object that may or may not even be real is very concerning because he went from a valued