ABSTRACT
Macbeth, style and theme is inextricably united. The distinction is of importance to theories of poetry in general, but here author concerned only with its significance for Coriolanus. Coriolanus is a world of "fragments" populated not by men but by parts of men. Coriolanus's uneasiness over the arts of language is in a way reminiscent of Hamlet's struggle with the problem of self-expression. The "notion" of the fundamental distinction between metonymy and metaphor has been impressively substantiated by Roman Jakobson. In his Fundamentals of Language, Jakobson discusses, from the linguist's point of view, the significance of various clinical investigations of aphasia, the disease characterized by loss of speech. The metaphoric way would be the most appropriate term for the first case and the metonymic way for the second, since they find their most condensed expression in metaphor and metonymy respectively.
