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essay on Hamlet , (7) he writes:
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of
art is by finding an ‘objective correlative’; in other words,
a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall
be the formula of that particular emotion; such that
when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory
experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
If you examine any of Shakespeare’s more successful
tragedies, you will find this exact equivalence; you will find
that the state of mind of Lady Macbeth walking in her
sleep has been communicated to you by a skillful
accumulation of imagined sensory impressions; the words
of Macbeth on hearing of his wife’s death strike us as if,
given the sequence of events, these words were
automatically released by the last event in the series.