Macbeth’s soliloquy takes place just before midnight, moments before he goes to kill King Duncan. In the scene, he is hallucinating a second dagger, much like the one he is to kill the king with. One of the major themes that are present in this soliloquy is indecisiveness. Moments before Macbeth is to kill the king, he begins to feel guilty about the crime he is about to commit. “on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood” (CITE). Macbeth is seeing blood covering both the handle and blade of the dagger he is imagining. This represents Macbeth foreseeing the results of the crime he is to soon commit as the blood represents the guilt he is going to feel after murdering the king, the man who has been so good to him. Macbeth stopping to think about
