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Did they bother analyzing the rest of the Shakespeare canon to see how often "the" appeared? The article doesn't say.
by SeanLuke 5y ago
Did they bother analyzing the rest of the Shakespeare canon to see how often "the" appeared? The article doesn't say.
- Zanni 5y agoYeah, that's the chart in the middle of the article of the log likelihood of each word. The higher that score, the more a word is used in Macbeth relative to the rest of his plays. However ... the author blips right over the fact that "our" and "she"--two very common words--both have a higher log likelihood than "the".
- alisonkisk 5y agoObviously people find MacBeth creepy because it's socialist ("our") feminism ("she"). Of course men throughout history will be creeped out by powerful witches.
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