A Critical Appraisal of Shakespeare’s Creative Conceptual Blending of the Supernatural and the Human in the Dramatic Composition of Macbeth
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This paper applies the cognitive theory of conceptual integration to the dramatic composition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in which the abstract and the concrete as well as the supernatural and the natural are blended in the mind of the audience to generate a novel conceptual outcome and an enveloping unity, suggesting a remarkable dramatic significance. The paper argues that an understanding of the mechanism of conceptual blending is indispensable to the recognition of the narrative composition and thematic content of the play. The paper concludes that what makes the play memorable is Shakespeare’s creative capacity of blending irreconcilable concepts and contradictory elements conceptually in an insightful and coherent whole.
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This paper applies the cognitive theory of conceptual integration to the dramatic composition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in which the abstract and the concrete as well as the supernatural and the natural are blended in the mind of the audience to generate a novel conceptual outcome and an enveloping unity, suggesting a remarkable dramatic significance. The paper argues that an understanding of the mechanism of conceptual blending is indispensable to the recognition of the narrative composition and thematic content of the play. The paper concludes that what makes the play memorable is Shakespeare’s creative capacity of blending irreconcilable concepts and contradictory elements conceptually in an insightful and coherent whole.
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