Ghost In Macbeth

In the play, Macbeth, Macbeth is portrayed to be hallucinating at different parts of the play. He hallucinates and sees a knife in front of himself, and he also sees Banquo’s ghost sitting in his dinner chair at a party. In some plays in real life, Banquo’s ghost is present and on stage, and some plays, the audience has to imagine what Macbeth is seeing. There be a difference in the effects that will be made from having the ghost on the stage and having him off. In the tragedy, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the most effective way to have the ghost appear in the play is to present the ghost on stage. It will allow the audience to see what Macbeth is seeing, it will allow all age groups to know what is happening, which Shakespeare wants, and
This also lets the reader know that Lady Macbeth is lying when she says, “Sit, worthy friends. My Lord is often thus,/ And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat” (Shakespeare 49). This part can relate to another part in the play when Lady Macbeth lies about being so sad about Duncan, because Macbeth was saying something he should not have. This is something Lady Macbeth does throughout the play, and not all of the audience would have understood what Lady Macbeth is saying and means. By having the ghost onstage, everyone in the audience will know what is going on. Shakespeare wrote plays for all ages and the ghost not on stage would be a problem for the younger kids, because they don’t have enough context clues to know what would be going on. The adults would know, but the kids would not. The purpose of Shakespeare plays are to be enjoyable to go to for all ages and by giving the ghost a character and putting him out onstage, this accomplishes this
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,/ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee./ I have not thee, and yet I see thee still” (Shakespeare 24). Macbeth cannot tell if what he sees in front of him is real, so he tries to grab it but he does not feel anything. He is hallucinating about the knife, because of how much he wants to kill Duncan. During the ghost scene, he hallucinates about Banquo, his old best friend, and he might feel some regret of killing him and that is why he is seeing his ghost. If a play were to not have the knife be there on stage, not a lot of people would get that he is hallucinating, because Macbeth says, “I have not thee, and yet I see thee still” (Shakespeare 24). The play director would have to choose a side on whether or not to have the items Macbeth is hallucinating on stage or not, because it would not make sense for one item to be there and another not to be. It easier to understand the knife scene better with the knife there, so the ghost should also be