Macbeth The Call Of The Daggers Analysis

The Call of the Daggers The Tragedy of Macbeth is known as Shakespeare’s most bloody play. The name should speak for itself that it is not all butterflies and rainbows. Shakespeare writes Macbeth in such a dark murderous way, and he alludes to the theme of death and evil from the beginning. Act two, scene one is the written effect to the glass shattering of hope the audience has for Macbeth to stay a good and moral person. The dagger soliloquy Macbeth speaks before the murder of King Duncan really plays to the ominous feel of the play. Within the first half of Macbeth, he is already plotting to kill the king and does go through with the lethal action. To start off the address of Macbeth’s inner feelings, he is having murderous hallucinations and his mind is running wild with the thoughts of what he may be about to do. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee” (2.1.33-34). This quote sets off the whole scene from where before we see Macbeth having a conversation about the witches prophecy, to sudden death as he is ready to commit a murderous act. This is the first time Macbeth is seen going a little insane. In his head we know that Lady Macbeth has pressured him into making the decision to kill Duncan and that he himself wasn’t so sure of what to do. As the soliloquy continues on the language used …show more content…
“And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood… It’s bloody business… Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse” (2.1.46-50) Using sanguinary vocabulary has already made the audience and readers believe that this will not be a calm humane murder if there is such a thing, but that this will be violent and most definitely bloody. As Shakespeare continuously repeated words such as blood, and death in this scene is really serves as the precursor for something much more gorey to