Eliot Quotes from the Waste Land

Question	Answer
Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath Depression in America Banks and profit overtaking good people Wrath=Dignity: the women watch for the break in their menfolk and relieved when fear turned to anger	Tractors moving like insects having the incredible strength of insects Man looked like part of the monster, a robot in the seat
Casey used to be a preacher now he has lost his faith and is a strike organiser Rose of Sharon full of hope with her man 'going to learn how to make radios'	Rose of Sharon baby dies How: Steinbeck did makes you feel. Lost and very sad, Why: Great Depression and people losing their homes Women taking over
Virginia Woolf ‘is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.	Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display . . . ?’
Rakes Progress Stravisky Score WH Audin Libretto Based loosely on 8 paintings by Hogarth	Scenes are vivid and ridiculous Romantic yet cruel How = stage setting nudism bad language
Vivid portrayal of the devil Innocent girl conjure up heaven Obvious black and white morals	Why = To show that life was changing and that as this libretto was written in 1951 in came after WWII where governments had behaved in a immoral way, particular the atom bomb on Japan

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