How is redemption or the hope of redemtion shown in T.S. Eliot's 'Wasteland'? ANYTHING you can offer is appreciated.I'm writing coursework for my...

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Thomas Stearns Eliot's The
Waste Land which is, according to F. R. Leavis, "great and positive
achievement and one of the first importances for English poetry", is the best portrait
of the intensity of the problems of modern world.

Modern
people's problems especially after the World War have become extremely intricate. As the
natural world has become barren outwardly because of massive death &
destruction, the internal state of humans has become complex as well as perverted. They
are going through a life-in-death situation, always in fear of death like "a handful of
dust" ('Burial of the Dead'). Moral values have lost dignity. Perverted sex has become a
part & parcel in their daily lives. In fact, innocence is considered as
perversion. Like Prufrock, every modern human is hopeless. In this waste land, the
modern men are like "heap of broken images" ('Burial of the Dead'), where "the dead tree
gives no shelter, cricket no relief" ('Burial of the Dead'). Humans have lost true
feeling for others, and that's why, in sex, love does prevail no more. The typist girl,
after making love like a machine, feels "glad" when the job is "over" ('The Fire
Sermon'). Women have to remain cautious always to prevent their partners from going away
to other women, they are used mere as a tool to produce children; the overt taking of
contraceptives destroy their health, yet, they can't bear giving birth anymore, so, they
need pills. But, then, their husbands do not tolerate having such ugly &
unproductive wives. Such is the condition of a conjugal life in the modern age. Besides,
homosexuality has become a terrible threat to moral values. In "the Fire sermon", we see
the Smyrna merchant to go through such relationship. Faith in God is overshadowed by the
power of money & personal enjoyment. Men, busy for their own business purposes,
are crossing the London Bridge at 9 am which is the time of Christ's crucifixion,
meaning that, they are forgetting religious dogmas and emphasizing more on their worldly
jobs. In fact, the implicit theme in section 3 also is connected with the above notion.
In sex, only lust dominates, a little love prevails there now. The scene, later, shifts
to the statements of the daughters of Thames, who poignantly describes the assaults
perpetrated on them. Then, the speaker utters that, London has become like Carthage
burning in the fire of lust. Carthage, by St. Augustine, was called cauldron of
sensuality & he prayed to God for His Grace. As the title suggests, 'The Fire
Sermon' refers to universal flame of sex which is becoming uncontrolled &
burning the entire world gradually.