Read this passage:
MACBETH. 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?
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, scene i
What evidence from the text leads you to believe that the dagger Macbeth
sees is an illusion?
O
A. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going: / And such an
instrument I was to use.
O
B. Is this a dagger which I see before me,/ The handle toward my
hand?
O
C. I see thee yet, in form as palpable / As this which now I draw.
D. Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind
O