Eliot and His Problems Among the twenty essays published by T.S Eliot in “The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism”, one cannot help but notice the provocatively titled critique of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, “Hamlet and His Problems”. In his essay, Eliot argues that Hamlet is an “artistic failure” (Eliot 1). Again, he bluntly states that one is to come to the "irrefragable" (Eliot 2) conclusion that “Shakespeare tackled a problem which proved too much for him” (Eliot 4). Upon closer examination
T.S. Eliot was one of many award winning book writers. T.S. Eliot was known as a ‘’hard working writer.’’ He published his first book in 1915, starting off his career as a writer/poet. T.S. Eliot was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis. He was the youngest of seven born to Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906–10, undergraduate at Harvard. He discovered the Symbolists and Lafarge. He was in editor of the Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine. In 1911-14 he was in graduate student in philosophy
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the community of Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, her brother Austin, and her sister Lavinia were brought up and nurtured in a quiet reserved household headed by their father Edward. Throughout her life, her mother was not always around, or "accessible," a fact that is said to have caused Emily’s eccentricity. They were raised in Puritanical Massachusetts,
The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels
One’s Own’ Woolf emphasis that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are the best dramatist and novelist respectively because of the element of androgynity. The mind of Austen and Shakespeare had consumed all impediments. ‘They had complete mind’. Their minds were never dominated by either masculine or feminine qualities, but by a combination of the two. To prove this point, Woolf compares Jane Austen with George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte. Keywords: Androgynous mind; feminine qualities; impediment;
sense of duty towards his dead father grows, fed partly by his father’s ghost, partly by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he becomes abnormally fierce and frustrated. However he is not delaying Claudius’s murder because of the madness which is fake as Eliot calls it "a simple ruse, and to the end, we may assume, understood as a ruse to the audience". He defers the action because of too much idealization, pondering and lack of planning till most of his friends are dead. Whereas Orestes’ delay is not because
The Libation Bearers and Hamlet Many of Shakespeare’s plays draw from classical Greek themes, plot and metaphors. The tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides and Homer have themes like royal murders, assassinations by near relatives, the supernatural, ghostly visits, and vengeful spirits of the dead- themes which reappear in Shakespeare’s tragedies with a difference. Shakespeare’s tragic hero Hamlet and Aeschylus’s Orestes have a great deal in common. Both the plays are set in a time when
literature grown to include the problems faced in reality. The word “fiction” transformed from the fairy tales of romanticism to the reality of realism in America. Authors such as: Clemens, Howells, Chopin, Eliot, Faulkner, and Anderson have all assisted the move from dreams to reality. Dramatists O’neill and Miller have written plays that have changed the way social circumstances are viewed by Americans. Americans, as portrayed by American writers, have been plagued with an inability to communicate
Harold Pinter is one of the most prominent living dramatists of the age. The seventy-three year old Pinter, who has written twenty-nine plays and twenty-one screen plays and who has directed twenty-seven theater productions, is one of the early practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd which started in the fifties. Absurd, which is one of the many different aspects of his works, functions as a means of getting into the reality that is Pinter’s main concern. Harold Pinter belongs to the group of
Influence of Existentialism in Literature: Existentialism became an essential part of the 20th century as humanity suffered through great challenges during that time. The threat of the nuclear bombing, destruction of humanity and sudden loss of loved ones had caused people to suffer from alienation and despair. Existentialism, in those times, clearly stated that there is no palliative for such situations. It was thus, criticized to be a disheartening philosophy for dismal times. However this movement