Shakespeare’s Technique of Distancing in Coriolanus
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This paper explores Shakespeare’s literary devices that create a distance between the play’s characters and the audience. Coriolanus is an unusual Shakespearean tragedy not only because the hero has too many character flaws, but also because the ways in which the playwright places ambiguity and distance keep the audience from fully liking any character in the play. The characters representing democracy are rather grouped together without having individual characteristics, and those representing aristocracy are put in the foreground with complex individual traits, but such attributes contribute to opposite dramatic effects between the first and second half of the play owing to different dramatic structures. Grouping and juxtaposing as strategies are designed to keep the audience neutral in their perception of characters.
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This paper explores Shakespeare’s literary devices that create a distance between the play’s characters and the audience. Coriolanus is an unusual Shakespearean tragedy not only because the hero has too many character flaws, but also because the ways in which the playwright places ambiguity and distance keep the audience from fully liking any character in the play. The characters representing democracy are rather grouped together without having individual characteristics, and those representing aristocracy are put in the foreground with complex individual traits, but such attributes contribute to opposite dramatic effects between the first and second half of the play owing to different dramatic structures. Grouping and juxtaposing as strategies are designed to keep the audience neutral in their perception of characters.