Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological ViewMacbeth is discussed in relation to Derrida's notion of the metaphysics of presence. Fawkner argues that the quest for metaphysical certitude in Macbeth is related to the hero's transformation from a heroic to a post-heroic status. |
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... moral capacities . 12 We are told that Macbeth in no true way is raising moral objections to murder in this soliloquy , that his moral logic is lame and insufficient.13 I agree entirely . But for the opposite reasons . Why is this pro ...
... moral capacities . 12 We are told that Macbeth in no true way is raising moral objections to murder in this soliloquy , that his moral logic is lame and insufficient.13 I agree entirely . But for the opposite reasons . Why is this pro ...
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... moral considerations . As we have seen , there are critics who prematurely rationalize this slight absence in Mac- beth from the moral issues as a " moral lack . " But the lack is not a moral lack but a lack . Just that , a vacuity and ...
... moral considerations . As we have seen , there are critics who prematurely rationalize this slight absence in Mac- beth from the moral issues as a " moral lack . " But the lack is not a moral lack but a lack . Just that , a vacuity and ...
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... moral dialectic seriously ; but as Robert Ornstein once pointed out , the moral and providential platitudes that the Elizabethans and Jacobeans liked to see in print were not the piloting ideas at the forefront of their awareness.24 ...
... moral dialectic seriously ; but as Robert Ornstein once pointed out , the moral and providential platitudes that the Elizabethans and Jacobeans liked to see in print were not the piloting ideas at the forefront of their awareness.24 ...
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