Perspectives of TS Eliot's Poems
1) Feminist (Prufrock)
Wealthy, cultural, fashionable, appearance conscious
Compartmentalises - women 'bare arms' 'bracelet'
Dismembered, stereotypical views about wealthy people
Reduced to small talk
Superficial - "Michelangelo"
Doesn't enjoy it too much, feels threatened
Women are seen as a threat and a risk
2) Psychoanalytical
Psychoanalysis attempts to describe human nature, human structure and the psyche (mind behaviour). It analyses human drives. Psychoanalysis unravels the mysteries of sex and death, tied together with human's natural instincts to live and reproduce.
Carl Jung
Jung believed that the unconscious revealed itself through symbols. Some of the Principles include:
The Principle of Opposite - that is every wish is opposite.
The Principle of Equivalents - is the notion that energy is created from the opposition of both sides of extremes being equal.
The Principle of Entropy
Sigmund Freud
prufrock
English: Group photo in front of Clark University ...
All shots taken on the Id, Ego, Superego Concept P...Freud had the idea of id, ego and superego. Id is the part that wants to have pleasure among all the rest. As you grow up, the id will gradually diminish to ego and superego. Ego is the part that is connected to reality, its consciousness. Superego is made up of two parts, its conscience and ego ideal.
3) Historical
Pre 20th century: Romantics, nature, rural, agrarian (agriculture), Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Deterioration of health
Social changes
Employment
Establishment of factories (hard labour) - machine operator
Urbanisation - live close to workplace
- High density thus cheap housing
Individualisation - breakdown in "community"
Depersonalisation
Mechanisation - dependency on machines
Profits
Class divisions - unskilled labourers
- Rise of a "middles class"
Quotes for Feminist Perspective
Prufrock
"In the room the women..."
"Perfume from a dress"
"Arms that are bracelet, white and bare"
"Known the arms already"
"Skirts that trail along the floor"
"Heard the mermaids singing"
"Sea-girls wreathed...