Comparing Life Without Meaning in Eliot’s The Waste Land and Welles’ Ci

Life Without Meaning in T. S. Eliots The molder Land and Orson swell Citizen Kane It is the foundation of modern civilization that knowledge is give way than ignorance, recogniseing more valuable than confusion, and wisdom more desirable than foolishness. Consequently, mint feel that they should be able to understand the meaning of life and, in doing so, know that their lives argon non in vain. They want life to be a luculent whole infused with meaning, so that they rear end know and understand what life is and where they fit in, thereby attaining wisdom. Life, then, is in essence a dispute to find a meaningful framework for the experiences and feelings we have collected. Since art studys the human race state, and we have grown more conscious of this struggle, our art has come to reflect this problem of making a coherent, meaningful whole out of the consort fragments of life we have collected.Though this theme of collecting is visible in all media of modern art, it is esp ecially noticeable in literary and lead art, in particular in T. S. Eliots The Waste Land and Orson Welless Citizen Kane. These both pieces analyze collecting on two levels send-off because they focus on collecting and second because they are collections. However, the division surrounded by these levels is somewhat superficial, as both Eliot and Welles blur the lines between the two parallels, making the audience more acutely aware that this art is a picture of all human life. On both levels the artists draw parallels between the works and the audiences lives by examining the content, style, and meaning of the collection that is, what is collected, how it is collected, and what it says, concluding that life is not a coherent whole, but rather a heap of scurvy ima... ...to be. Collecting points out that in the very act of observing the art, we are collecting, as the persona and Kane are, in an attempt to make a coherent and meaningful whole out of our lives, and that we will fa il as sure as shooting as they do.NOTES1 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, in The Waste Land and some other Poems (New York Harcourt Brace, 1962).2 The original title of The Waste Land was a quote from Dickenss novel Our Mutual Friend, He do the Police in distinct voices.3 When I say that the poem lacks a coherent meaning, I mean that it has no more coherent meaning that life itself does.4 I am not Russian, I am out of Lithuania, a real German.5 It is interesting to note the two meanings that this phrase can have. It could mean that the fragments are anchored in his literary tradition, or it could mean that it is locate up as a bulwark to prevent his ruin.