Topic: Universal Human Laws in The Waste Land

Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.Presented Date: 1-10-2014

Paper No.: 9/ Modernists LiteratureYear: 2014-15Roll No.: 18M.A. /Part: 2

Sem.: 3

Topic: Universal Human Laws in The Waste Land

Use of ‘Myths’ in ‘The Waste Land’: It shows that the present spiritual predicament is an ever-recurring phenomena and so a universal significance is imparted to it.

The Waste Land is the modern Epic.

The Myth of the ‘Hollowness of Human Beings’ in ‘Modern Times’.

Mythified the rituals of Modern men.

Legitimization

Modernism & ‘The Waste Land’

Myth?

1)The Decayed Condition of The Civilization and a Culture of living dead

Epigraphs- Sibyl.

She typifies, the time woven soul’s desire to escape from the ‘Wheel’ of things.

“I want to die”

Nirvana

Moksha

Salvation

2)Past and future clash with each as-yet-unformed & just-beginning

present

PastFuture

In decaying culture, where people are caught in an abandoned present between a past whose ‘Meaningless’ and a future that unclear offers ‘No Hope’, superstition trumps faith and anxiety accompanies every action.

3)The oppressed with a sense of not being free, consequently, withdraws from the world of experience to the

world of contemplation

*Marie in the mountains.

*In the mountains, there you feel free…Reading much of the night, and going south in winter.

4)It is the eternal ‘present’ of the human condition:

‘Fear of handful of dust’

*The spirit that animates handful of dust, in the

present, is decaying and sickened one.

5)Fatal love & inevitable death

Love mixed with death & rebirth

Love Lust Dea

th

6)Death of God

*The crucifixion represents the mythological slaughter of God.

*Meaninglessness of Cultural values.

*For Example Christian culture

* The Death of God renders human life & human death meaningless.

7)Knowledge of what is needed is not the same as

attaining what is necessary

*Datta-Give (God)

*Dayadhvam-Compassion(Humans)

*Damyata-Self-Control (Demons)

Our needs are limited but what we required is endless.

8)Nostalgia It means bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

Memory and Desire.

Tiresias is nostalgic-Stetson, divan…

Satisfaction by Rain gives us illusive assurance of the revitalization of dead past/memory.

NostalgicImages

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Submitted To:

S.B. Gardi,Department of English,

Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).

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