In this way, the object comes to convey the intensity of Pnin’s distress as yet another disaster threatens to crush him. It could therefore be considered as an objective correlative, a coinage which poet and critic ...made popular in his 1919 essay on Hamlet: "The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 'objective correlative'; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.”

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