Witches Make An Illusion Dagger In Macbeth

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The speaker is Macbeth. We cannot say is that his mental disease or some illusion witches made to “enforce” his murdering. There is one possibility that witches made the dagger. As the main setting reason of these withes is to pushing the ambition and pushing the growth of evil side, it is logical that they made an illusion dagger in Macbeth’s mind to inspired Macbeth insider emotion. Murdering of Duncan is one essential points that punished Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s mental world. As we can see, witches’ effort is essential to the whole story also.

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