The Plight of Women in T.S.Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’

Abstract

An Anglo-American poet, critic, dramatist, and editor, Thomas Stearns Eliot was a major innovator in modern English poetry, famous above all for his revolutionary poetry. Eliot has in many of his poems, portrayed as hero that man who feels a sense of his own inadequacy and impotence, and who is painfully aware of  the banality and futility of his own life as well as of life in general. In his poems, Eliot points out that the degeneration of modern civilization is caused by loss of faith in religion, lack of human relationship, commercialism of love, mental tension and politics and wars. This paper highlights on his view about the futility of the 20^th century people in various societies. The alienation of the conscious individual among the unthinking masses is seen as responsible for the sordid and morality. The poet calls the city London an unreal city because lust, cheating-go on freely. In this paper, I would also like to highlight the plight of women and their spiritual bankruptcy that led to total despondency in T.S.Eliot’s poetry. The sacrifice of women in many civilizations of all time in  T.S.Eliot’s poetry represent the root of sterility in spiritual, moral and productive world resulting to nonexistence.