Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2 portrays the beginning of his moral downfall and his dynamic characterization. Macbeth begins to feel his guilty conscious as he questions himself seeing a “dagger, which I see before me.” The powerful dagger is when readers first see Macbeth’s powerful imagination. Macbeth’s imagination in this soliloquy foreshadows his dramatic and dynamic character throughout the play. Macbeth recognizes that indeed the “dagger of the mind, a false creation” is brought up because of his “heat-oppressed brain. These acknowledgments that Macbeth faces in these two blank verses demonstrates the theme of play about appearance versus reality. Macbeth sees this blade with the imagery of “gouts of blood” however; his guilty
