Premium Content Invitation, Violation, and Automation: The Deterioration of Desire in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
By Jessica Rae Waggoner - January 01, 2006
In The Waste Land, Eliot utilizes women as a window to show the dissolution and distortion of love and desire. Eliot creates a progression from invitation, to violation, to automation through the use of three distinct female characters: the hyacinth girl, Philomela, and the young typist. These women give the reader aan understanding as to how the…
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