Malady of Modern Civilization In 'Wasteland' and 'Muktiprasang'

Authors(1) :-Dr. Shambhavi Jha

All human civilizations have sprung with the combined effort and inspiration of great men. Ages may come and ages may go but human nature and human experiences culminating into human consciousness remains practically one and same throughout ages. In the same manner, the disintegration and decay of such civilizations can be attributed to human vanity and ambition resulting in loss of moral integrity. As literature is the mirror of life itself, it tries to give the impression of truth and in the modern times, such realist scenario came into being which was free from normative judgments and philosophical theories and rather tried to depict the life together with its harshness, sordid realities, and objective truth. In such an environment the exposure to poverty, violence, racism, inequality, filth, squalor, prejudice, corruption, prostitution, and disease cannot be overlooked. In such an environment, World literature tried to find a panacea by dwelling into human consciousness. Unsurprisingly, the continuum of the same can be understood through the comparative study of two major poems of two great poets of two different languages. The comparison is to be done between ‘The Wasteland’ of T.S. Eliot and the Mukti-Prasang by Raj Kamal Chaudhary.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Shambhavi Jha
Assistant Professor, Department of English, K.S. College, L.N.M.U Darbhanga, Bihar, India

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 1 | January-February 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-02-28
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 221-230
Manuscript Number : SISRRJ1818929
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Dr. Shambhavi Jha, "Malady of Modern Civilization In 'Wasteland' and 'Muktiprasang'", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.221-230, January-February.2018
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SISRRJ1818929

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