Mystical Women Research Articles

The Christian Concept In Murder In The Cathedral

ELIOT IS CONCERNED WITH THE IMPACT OF an unusual event, an event that partakes of eternity, on the passive, mystical women of the parish who are submerged in the temporal. They are witnesses being instructed to go through a purgatorial experience. There are really two struggles in the play, Becket's to do the right deed for the wrong reason, and the chorus's to witness, to accept, and to consent to the suffering and insecurity the martyrdom of Thomas will bring. The second ends in acceptance at the end of the play: the first ends in success at the end of the first section.