[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Lighting Fools: Reflections on an Image in Macbeth's "Tomorrow" Soliloquy
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:48:43 -0500
Maybe it's that the hypostasis of the original Macbeth is burial or
going to sleep, while the hypostasis of the rewrite is waking up happy?
It's easy to feel depressed when very tired, and to confuse the two states.
A.A. Sorry, I don't follow you here at all. I don't see Shakespeare's
lines as tending toward the hypostatis (that sent me to the dictionary
and I still don't know what it means) of burial or going to sleep.
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I used hypostasis to mean "underlying reality." "Candle lighting the
way" is an image of going to sleep, as is "out brief candle," i.e.,
blowing a candle out at the bedside or extinguishing a life flame. Dusty
death is burial, etc.
Eric
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