T. S. Eliot's Lamentations over the Hypocrisies of Modern Life: an Insight into The Waste Land

<p>The aim of this study is to show the futility of modern life that has given birth to the<br>obnoxious hypocrisies prevailing in the minds of modern people and indicate the<br>outcome of modern life as well as modern literature. The paper represents<br>lamentations, which are considered to be one of the major themes of modern<br>literature and are also found in modern society, where the degradation of human<br>behavior and feelings is prominent. The methodology of extracting some elements<br>of Victorian literature has been applied to ensure the effect of the Victorian age on<br>the Modern age and society. Another strategy is applied, showing the poor spiritual<br>conditions of modern people that come from the breakdown of romantic spirits and<br>disappointment followed by the rise of materialistic achievements after the postindustrialization period, which resulted in the cry of deportation and disinterest in<br>the human soul that is prevailing in modern life. Finally, this paper talks about ideas<br>such as falsehood, deception, vanity, disillusion, and failure as the outcome of<br>modern life through some of Eliot's poems while focusing on The Waste Land. The<br>goal of this paper is to focus on the prominent hypothesis of the modern age, search<br>for the reasons behind these, and draw out a way of salvation from those hypocrisies</p>