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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... soliloquy . Here , already , and under the influence of Lady Macbeth's manipulations , the hero is beginning to try to think out his revulsion in terms of its opposite : " real " desire to murder . But precisely ... Soliloquy 85 Soliloquy.
... soliloquy . Here , already , and under the influence of Lady Macbeth's manipulations , the hero is beginning to try to think out his revulsion in terms of its opposite : " real " desire to murder . But precisely ... Soliloquy 85 Soliloquy.
Page 88
... soliloquy can be viewed as a function of the very moral inclination in Macbeth that certain critics refuse to acknowledge , another part is a function of a vaster mechanism that is still not fully developed but which can nevertheless be ...
... soliloquy can be viewed as a function of the very moral inclination in Macbeth that certain critics refuse to acknowledge , another part is a function of a vaster mechanism that is still not fully developed but which can nevertheless be ...
Page 89
... soliloquy simulta- neously forwards the sense of two opposite movements - and that discourse , deconstructing the oppositionality of this ( dialec- tical ) opposition , unifies and separates the " two " motions in one and the " same ...
... soliloquy simulta- neously forwards the sense of two opposite movements - and that discourse , deconstructing the oppositionality of this ( dialec- tical ) opposition , unifies and separates the " two " motions in one and the " same ...
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