MACBETH QUOTES

MACBETH QUOTES

1. "Present fears are less than horrible imagings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man."

   • Here, he is tying to puzzle out the implications of the witches prophecy and suggests it cannot be evil. However he admits that due to the prophecy, he has begun to fantasize about killing Duncan and taking the throne

2. "A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Proceeding from the heat opressed brain."

   •  He is aware that the floating knife he sees if not really there. The fact that he is troubled enough to hallucinate, yet still sane enough to understand that he is hallucinating, can be contrasted with his later state if mind when he completely believes he is seeing Banquo