Macbeth’s Vision and His Hallucinations in the Play!

Macbeth’s vision and his hallucinations in the Play!
Whatever moral scruples come to him. Come from his rich imagination. It is voices and the vision which makes him a victim of spiritual suffering. He hears the voices ‘sleep no more’ as he kills the king Duncan.
He hears someone knocking at the gate which shuts the outer world of moral life as if it was anxious to wake him up from the deed of horror that he has committed. He hears the grooms saying ‘amen’ and he could not utter the blessed word. He sees the vision of the dagger leading him on to the chamber where Duncan is sleeping. He sees the ghost of Banquo and ocean made by his bloody hand that dips into it to wash away its guilty evidence.
In other words, Macbeth is shown as seeing vision and hearing voices which hail from the rich imagination which draws pictures out of his criminal deeds .The moral sense in him speaks through images and pictures vividly painted in front of his mind’s eye. These images would have been his moral guidance system if he would have chosen to follow it, but his tragedy is that he does not do so.
Macbeth has a very sensitive imagination this means that Macbeth is a good man who is not dead to the moral sense. This rich and sensitive imagination of his makes him a victim of indescribable mental and moral suffering. How deep the suffering is we get to know from his ‘asides’ and ‘soliloquies’. In all stages of Duncan’s murder, before during and after, Macbeth’s imagination is fired up at the thought of murder. It makes him horribly aware of the dishonor, ungratefulness and the consequences of murder. Macbeth’s imagination is the best of him. It is something deeper and higher than his conscious thoughts. It exposes his better nature and raises him higher than his tragic stature.
Hallucinations Macbeth has a very different kind of imagination which takes over his entire body and mind during violence this leads to hallucinations. He visualizes a dagger in the air blotted with Duncan’s blood
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?
The handle toward my hands?”
Just after Duncan’s murder he hears a sleeping guard laughing and another one crying “murder”. He sees Banquo’s gory head seated in his chair. All these images are the false creations of his heat-oppressed brain and bloody business for the crown. The terrifying images of a dagger, Banquo’s ghost and other things are really the protest of his deepest self. They deter him from crime and follow its commission. His conscious mind is busy for outward success and failure, while his inner being is convulsed by his conscience. Had Macbeth obeyed his conscience he would have been safe.
Declination of Macbeths Imagination: Macbeth kills not only his king Duncan but also his sleep, peace of mind and imagination. So long as his imagination is active we have sympathy for him but as soon as he destroys his imagination after Banquo’s murder, Macbeth becomes his own enemy. After destroying his nobler self, He becomes a cool, brutal and pitiless hypocrite.