Monday 21 December 2015

Blog on T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

1.Friedrich Nietzsche Presents the concept of ‘The Ubermensch’, it means (Superman)the superior man, who justifies the existence of the human race, and also it means that as a goal for humanity to set for itself. He believing in Progressive and forward looking things, it presented in his ‘The Ubermensch’. Nietzsche’s idea different from what T.S .Eliot  presented in  ‘The Waste Land’  . Nietzsche’s belief in some morality led towards different world. On the other hand Eliot deals with Past, Present , and Modern world in ‘The Waste Land’. In the last section, Eliot points out the way for spiritual salvation through the following of the philosophy of the Buddha. Man must give himself over to the cause of religion. 

2. to Eliot, it was said that You, Mr. Eliot, of are the opposite opinion. For you the salvation of the man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition, which, in our more mature years, lives with great vigour within us than does primitiveness, and which we must preserve if chaos is to avoided.
Freud gave importance to free outlet of basic instinct. To fulfill it is more important. It is basic desire. So there is nothing wrong. Which was earlier believe to be. But this freedom which Western society into chaotic life. But this thing lead them  towards  spiritual degradation, people burning with lust, spiritual draught, chaos in society

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So T. S. Eliot has to write  that “salvation of man lies in the preservation of cultural tradition to revive faith in god- he writes like this and gave solution to preservation of cultural tradition. Thus, both Freud and Eliot gave their views. It is true that free vent to  the repressed primitive lead to happy life, but it should be in limited way. The real problem is that Freud had not told  what people  are doing. So both things are important, but in its limit.


3. The Indian allusions are of “Ganga”, “Himavat”, “Data”, “Dayadhvam”, “Damyata” and “Shantih, Shantih, Shantih”.He makes use of Indian allusions in the last part- which symbolically mean that he comes to Indian Spirituality for the solution of his questions. Data means be a giver, what have you given? Dayadhvam means sympathy for others. Damyata means Self- control. He ends his poem by lines  Shantih, Shantih, Shantih, which is taken from Upanishad.

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