 Studying Macbeth Here's how you can analyse that to scene 1 when Macbeth sees a floating dagger Macbeth asks, is this the dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? This rhetorical question shows his intense feeling of guilt Remember hallucinations are used by Shakespeare in this play to represent guilt He tells the dagger thou marshals me the way that I was going In other words, the dagger is leading him where he's going Personification is used here to show that the dagger is leading him to kill King Duncan in his room He says my eyes are made of falls of the other senses This declarative sentence shows that he's trusting appearances too much and this could mislead him He sees on thy blade and dungeon gout of blood Bloody imagery is used here to foreshadow how King Duncan dies a bloody and brutal death at the hands of Macbeth He feels like nature seems dead and Cezura is used here to show that Macbeth feels he's about to commit a really unnatural act He uses these words that belong to the semantic field of the supernatural to show that he's about to commit an act against God