Macbeth: If I Was the Director

If I was the director of the Macbeth play I would stage the dagger scene to show Macbeth as the only one seeing the dagger. I would make it so only he sees the dagger to make it more believable that Macbeth is going insane. Because when you grab at the air and nothing's there it makes you look insane. Also in the Patrick Stewart version of Macbeth when he says "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee"  it personally caught me off guard when Macbeth grabbed at the dagger. I would also make the actor that is playing the part of Macbeth to grab at the dagger like there was an actual dagger there. Another thing I would do if I was the director is that I would make the stage dark and have a spotlight shining on only Macbeth to make the scene seem more sinister and suspenseful. 

Macbeth Analytical Paragraph

The dagger scene in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" demonstrates how Macbeth's starting to go insane. This is shown by him seeing a dagger that is only visible to him. In 2.1.33-34 it shows Macbeth talking to himself and a dagger. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my? Come, let me clutch thee" he then grabs at the air. By him seeing and attempting to grab a dagger that is not actually there shows that Macbeth is beginning to go insane. Another line that shows that Macbeth is going insane is 2.1.46. "And on thy blade and dudgeon gout of blood" Macbeth still sees the dagger in front of him but now the dagger has blood on it. He tries to tell himself that he's not going insane in  2.1.38-39. He was trying to rub it off as a "false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain." After talking to himself for a while, Macbeth then says that  it was the murder he was about to commit was the reason he was seeing the dagger. After this conversation Macbeth has with himself it is evident that he is going insane.