An objective correlative is a concept in drama suggested by T S Eliot in a discussion of Shakespeare' s Hamlet. Recognising that the hero's emotion in the play was excessive and inexplicable, Eliot suggested that dramatists must find an exact, sensuous equivalent, or 'objective correlative', for any emotion they wish to express. He gave an example from Macbeth where Lady Macbeth's state of mind in the sleepwalking scene is communicated to the audience by a skilful building-up of images and actions. Research Objective Correlative
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-born British poet, critic and dramatist. He was born in 1888 at St Louis, Missouri and died in 1965. Educated at Harvard, London and Paris, T S Eliot settled in London in 1915 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a teacher and journalist. His first book of prose was published in 1917, and in 1927 he became a British citizen. Research T S Eliot
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