Formal & Informal paragraphs for dagger sililioquy

Is Macbeth mad in 2.1?

 

                In act two scene one, it appears as though Macbeth is mad. The things he says shows he most definitely is. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?” (2.1, 33-35) When he says this he is imagining a dagger in front of him, in which is obviously a figment of his imagination. “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” (2.1, 35) These quotes are proof he is mad because a sane person doesn’t see things that aren’t actually there and consider killing someone. “And such an instrument I was to use.” (2.1, 43) In other words these quotes and several others show that Macbeth is crazy.

 If I were a director, how would I stage the dagger scene and why?

                If I were a director, there is a specific way I would stage the dagger soliloquy to emphasize how mad Macbeth is. I would make the scene of him saying the soliloquy intense through the whole thing. I would do this by giving him almost psychotic characteristics. Such as jitteriness when speaking, seeing objects that aren’t actually there (dagger), and the way he is presented. By presented I mean I’d want him to look scary, I’d want him to not seem all there. Especially when he says “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:” (2.1, 33-34) There are several ways to justify that Macbeth is crazy. But this is how I would express it if I were a director.