![]() Embracing different perspectives allows Eliot to establish that no there is no single universal truth. Lose of romance has lead to empty and fruitless relationships among people.Įliot uses “The Wasteland” to develop the theme that many different truths have been broken up by war. His desire for her body guides him without any consideration of her feelings or her safety. She is raped and then mutilated by her sister’s husband, King Tereus. One of the girls comments that she “can connect nothing with nothing.” The climax of the theme that romance is dead comes through the allusion, made twice in “The Wasteland,” to Philomel’s rape in Greek Mythology. It is a physical experience and nothing more. The unifying theme of each experience is that there is not any romance. The Thames Daughters section in The Fire Sermon describes the loss of virginity of three different maidens. Eliot points out the shame in wasting the love of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, because of politics, when few people prove able to find love. ![]() There is not any difference between the sex that the typist and the real estate agent share and the sex that Mr. The man “makes a welcome of indifference” and the woman reflects afterward that she is “glad it’s over.” The affair is completely devoid of love. ![]() The female typist and the male typist use sex as entertainment instead of as an expression of love. ![]() This theme is especially evident in the third part of “The Wasteland,” The Fire Sermon. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” develops the theme that romance being replaced with empty and mindless sex. ![]()
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