Assertion: dagger | /r/HasProperty | illusion
Facets:
value: from the outset
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Second of all, Macbeth does understand that this vision may be the result of "the heat-oppressed brain," which means he is aware that the dagger may only be an illusion.
text: But this makes the implied boundary between the real and the hallucinatory too clear-cut: as numerous critics have pointed out, the point is that Macbeth believes that the dagger is real at first, rather than knowing it to be an illusion from the outset.
text: As far as reality is concerned in this extract, the dagger Macbeth sees is an illusion which becomes then a stage reality when he draws out his own dagger: “I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which I now draw” (l. 40-41).
text: As far as reality is concerned in this extract, the dagger Macbeth sees is an illusion which becomes then a stage reality when he draws out his own dagger: “I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which I now draw” (l. 40-41).