The soliloquy Macbeth has shows the reasoning that he is insane. This is because if a person would madly clutch the air and exclaim " A dagger of the mind, a false creation/ Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?". This shows that he knows he is mad, yet he does not know if his mind is suffering from a fever and is acting normal or not. Macbeth is shown to be angry towards king Duncan by saying "hear not Duncan, for it is a knell/ that summons thee to heaven or to hell.". this shows that no matter what, Macbeth will claim the throne and no matter what , king Duncan will die. I think that in Macbeths soliloquy, he definitely shows that he is going mad. Going mad over this situation is understandable being that he is about to commit murder, but he does not have to be obsessive over the thought of it.
If I were the director I would stage Macbeth's soliloquy in a setting similar to that of what his conscience has. I mean this because he says " is this a dagger I see before me,/ the handle toward my hand? come, let me clutch thee:/ I have thee not and yet I see the still." My interpretation of this is that he is having this soliloquy in his subconscious , where he is hallucinating seeing a real dagger. My reasoning to stage it in his subconscious is the line that he says “A dagger of the mind, a false creation,/ proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” which suggests he may be delusional due to the fact he may suffer from a medieval times flu-bug. This would make me want to set it up so that there is no actual dagger that he clutches to, but rather him just standing under a lone spotlight surrounded by darkness and talking directly to the audience, which would suggest a conscience like setting.
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