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October 16, 2019 • 17:11 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
  • English

Which of the following statements best describes T. S. Eliot?s assertion that Shakespeare?s Hamlet is an ?artistic failure? ?

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    T S Eliot in his critical essay, Hamlet and his Problems, used the phrase 'objective correlative' to describe "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion" that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader. There must be a positive connection between the emotion the poet is trying to express and the object, image, or situation in the poem that helps to convey that emotion to the reader. 
    Eliot claimed that Shakespeare's play Hamlet was an "artistic failure" because Hamlet's intense emotions overwhelmed the author's attempts to express them through an objective correlative.

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