Select the correct answer. Read this excerpt from act II, scene I of Macbeth: MACBETH: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. (Exit Servant.) Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:— I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Based on the context of the passage, what do the underlined words mean? Macbeth addresses the spectral dagger he sees before him. His guilt-ridden brain is playing games with him. Macbeth addresses one of the daggers he plans to use to murder Duncan to stir himself into action. Macbeth doubts his ability to trust his own sense of touch because he sees a dagger that he can't grasp. Macbeth gets hold of a dagger and is happy to go ahead with his task of murdering Duncan.