Part one of term paper
William Empson disagreed with many of J. M. Robertson, Literary Detection (1931), about certain points surrounding MacBeth. "The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fear, when tis done, to see." is a line from MacBeth which to Robertson "appeared particularly vulgar". William Empson discusses this point and says that "he thro ...

Part two of term paper
... He even goes so far to call that a "vacuous tag-line". This is a example of a line which sums up a certain point that Robertson has passed off as horrid. Empson points out that "it establishes from the start the theme of fog" and I am within full agreement with Empson when he remarks that comment of the line. Certain lines to MacBeth, which Empson described as essential, were disregarded by Robertson as having "no sense". This paragraph shows an example of what Robertson disregarded: ...