Voice in T.S. Eliot's The Hippopotamus, The Hollow Men, and Journey of the Magi

Another famous and influential work from T.S. Eliot is The Hollow Men. Likely influenced by World War I, T. S. Eliot portrays a disconnect from humanity and a disillusionment with typical beliefs as a source of human despair in The Hollow Men. The “hollow men” that the work is centered around are depicted devoid of any human qualities that might provide them a relief from despair, such as hope or faith. As is written in “T. S. Eliot's Indigenous Critical Concepts and 'The Hollow Men'” by Muhammad Khan Sangi and others, “In this poem the human beings have been shown devoid of the qualities of faith, moral strength, of personality, determination and that of humanity; they are like empty bodies, lacking all human virtues” (Sangi et al para 4). No matter how these qualities were lost to the individuals, the result is constant and predictable: the individuals feel an inescapable despair. When one has nothing to anticipate in life, no expectations or hopes, then life loses its meaning. This is the world that the hollow men live in perpetually. The entire work, as Sangi describes, “is a cry of despair unrelieved by hope. The peculiarity of the poem is that it is an inner drama with the utmost economy of words. The images echo the deadness of sensibility and the emptiness of hollow men who, like the effigies, are fit only for burning” (Sangi et al para 5). Again, the hollow men are depicted as worthless, insofar as they are compared to effigies, the only purpose of which is to be

Yes, this character was very successful with his vocal choices. The range of his vocal tone within each scene added depth to his character. For example, when he confronts Jackie about their relationship, he softens his voice to show his pain, but also strengthens it to illustrate that his pain also comes from a place of anger.

it comes. Raoul continues to praise the voice as, “heroically sweet..., so delicate in strength, so

audience wonder about the trials he has gone through and the pain he has suffered.The voice the

T.S Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an examination of human insecurity and folly, embodied in the title's J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot's story of a man's "overwhelming question", his inability to ask it, and consequently, his mental rejection plays off the poem's many ambiguities, both structural and literal. Eliot uses these uncertainties to develop both the plot of the poem and the character of J. Alfred Prufrock.

The passionate tone within the poem assists in bringing out the author’s message. For example in lines twenty-seven to thirty-eight:

In this scene the performance is based on a particular delivery and facial expressions of that of one emoting to channel tension, anger and regret.

While Jay Gatsby is the central character in the novel, we only come to know him through Nick’s narrative. To what extent are our impressions of Gatsby influenced by Nick’s personal feelings about him? To what extent is Nick a reliable narrator

The voices of men. Their raging battle cries and the strangled cries when they are injured.

A contemporary of Eliot, who also tried to find hope in the midst of chaos and despair of the period was Evelyn Waugh. He writes on the modernists issues in Brideshead Revisited and among other works, such as Vile Bodies. The story describes the high society, Catholic family named the Flytes, living in the midst of the modern period. It describes the struggles of the children and the narrator, Charles Ryder, in their journey to find what makes them happy and how to live a fulfilled life through alcoholism, affairs, and rejection of faith. It brings out the idea that “people want to see their sins as blessings because they want activity, but really long for permanence.” (Corr 388) this again brings out the idea that people look for hope in

As the book was written in third person there is no emotion throughout the book. Stories are presented matter-of-factly which results in

Although he is the narrator, Nick is unreliable and biased with the way he is conveying the story throughout the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. For instance, Nick would show his opinions on other characters, such as the husband of his second cousin, Tom, “As for Tom, the fact that he ‘had some woman in New York’ was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.” A reliable narrator is someone who does not show their opinions at all. However, Nick is less shocked at the fact that Tom, as a married man, is having a secret affair than at him reading a book. His reaction reveals that he views Tom as an unintelligent, disloyal person. This prevents readers from creating their own conclusions on the story’s characters.

A narrative voice is the heart of a story, it is the one that determines many important things about what is happening and can even have the potential to convert the reader in protagonists of the story. In this story “A Rose for Emily “ by William Faulkner the narrative voice is causing confusion on the reader because have many voices distilled into one . Many times, it seems that he/she knows everything that is happening and that he was very close to the protagonist Emily and at other times seems a complete stranger. It is not easy for the reader to determine the gender of the narrator, and even to imagine it is extremely complex. Faulkner develop in this story is genre Gothic Fiction, whit this unexpected narrator and whit

Message of Hope in Eliot's The Waste Land, Gerontion, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is inhabited by both a richly developed world and character and one is able to categorize the spaces in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to correspond to Prufrock’s mind. Eliot uses the architecture of the three locations described in the text to explore parts of Prufrock's mind in the Freudian categories of id, ego, and super-ego; the city that is described becomes the Ego, the room where he encounters women his Id and the imagined ocean spaces his Super Ego.