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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... philosophies of life : our commitment or noncommitment to a specific existential credo . My attitude to this deeper - running type of ideological and emotional conflict is a twofold one . On the one hand , I do not think it is possible ...
... philosophies of life : our commitment or noncommitment to a specific existential credo . My attitude to this deeper - running type of ideological and emotional conflict is a twofold one . On the one hand , I do not think it is possible ...
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... philosophical levels of Derridean thought ( TM , 3 ) , and the reductive treatment of deconstruction as a method ( TM , 123 ) is one of the sad consequences of such an academic attitude.1 Deconstructionism in its superficially " clever ...
... philosophical levels of Derridean thought ( TM , 3 ) , and the reductive treatment of deconstruction as a method ( TM , 123 ) is one of the sad consequences of such an academic attitude.1 Deconstructionism in its superficially " clever ...
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... philosophical mood . Critics who do not bother to partici- pate in this mood , or even realize that they need to come to know it , are not in the final analysis performing deconstructions ; in- stead they are often extending the claims ...
... philosophical mood . Critics who do not bother to partici- pate in this mood , or even realize that they need to come to know it , are not in the final analysis performing deconstructions ; in- stead they are often extending the claims ...
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Page 72 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble ; Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double, toil and trouble ; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf; Witches...
Page 86 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
Page 67 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 87 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongu'd against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow, the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 75 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 75 - s comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 103 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal ; For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. Macb. Whence is that knocking ? How is't with me, when every noise appals me ? What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 144 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 84 - My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.