The elements of the supernatural and of mystery that surround the scene in the form of an intangible dagger play into the confusion and misunderstandings that ultimately drive Macbeth to his death by coercing him into committing increasingly evil tasks. Furthermore, this first hallucination also functions to situate Macbeth in an intermediate position between the war hero first introduced at the beginning of the play to the mass murderer in the midst of a psychotic break by the end. Macbeth’s hallucination acts as a bridge between who he was and who he was destined to become, showing that the line between free will and fate is ever a gray