The document discusses T.S. Eliot's concept of the "objective correlative" which refers to using a set of objects, situations, or events in a work of art to represent and evoke a particular emotion for the audience without directly expressing it. It provides an example from Eliot's work and briefly mentions several works that utilize objective correlatives including The Waste Land, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Mulholland Dr.

1. OBJECTIVE
CORRELATIVES

2.  “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; such that when the external facts, which must
terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately
evoked.”
- T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet and his Problems”

3. THE WASTE LAND (1922)

4. JONES – FROM RICHES …

5. TO RUIN

6. THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
(1920)
Francis (left)
begins his story.

7. THE LOVE TRIANGLE
Alan and Francis
compete for Jane’s love.

8. AT THE CARNIVAL
Meanwhile Caligari (right)
and Cesare (left) predict
Alan’s death during their
fortune telling show.
Days later, Alan is
murdered.

9. Cesare comes to
function as an
objective correlative
for Francis’s dark
desires.

10. FRANCIS AND DEMONIC DESIRE

11. MULHOLLAND DR. (2001)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWDzGxqqa0