Monday, December 19, 2011

Rhetorical Proximity – an approximate connection of emotional attraction by the audience towards the aesthetic value of an author’s work. Weak rhetorical proximity may be in the informative; directions to the library, a puzzle, a dinner menu; Strong rhetorical proximity is generally found in Shakespeare, the master of word play; the repetitive sequence of intermittent breaks within lines, methodical ironies of verbal situational and the dramatic , the paradoxical relationships, the contradictions, the clown motifs, the metaphysical insertions; the dual nature of circumstance constantly streams around, each having significant interest at various moments in the play. We are fully involved. In Hamlet, the play by William Shakespeare, at any time, throughout the play, there are simultaneous slices of drama and mini dramas present, embracing a central conflict. The ghost, Hamlet, the fog, a castle, the royal bloodline of Denmark; would be an example of rhetorical proximities; thus, what manifests is an attractive quality that bounds the audience to its personae.

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