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 leads you to believe that the dagger Macbeth sees is an
illusion?
O A. Come, let me clutch thee.
O B. Is this a dagger which I see before me
O c. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
OD. The handle toward my hand?