Topic : Myths in The Waste LandName : Makwana Ankita m.

Paper No :9Roll No :1

Enrolment No:PG13101020Year :2013-14Semester : 3

Guidance : by Department of English

What is Myth?

Meaning of Myth• A myth is a story that may or

may not be true.• Myths are generally very old.• Myths not only beautiful story

but that is something. Myth means a false belief. “ Myth convert history in to the

nature ”.

Myths in The Waste Land

Myths

Tiresias

The Grail

Legend

The Fisher king.

The Vegetation and

Fertility

Sibyl

Tiresias - a mythical Character.

• Important part of mythical technique.• He is a ideal character.

• His life is related to past and present.

• In Greek mythology a seer, or prophet, from Thebes , said to have been struck blind by the goddess Athena because he had seen her bathing.

• Tiresias played a prominent part in Theban legends, delivering prophecies to Oedipus, king of Thebes.

The Grail Legend

• The Holly Grail legend is a medieval legend associated with the adventure of king Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

• The grail was the cup or plate used by Christ for his last Supper, in which the blood of the Saviour was collected when he was crucified.

Fisher King• The mythical waste land of the

Fisher King symbolizes contemporary decay and spiritual sterility.

• It is said that the course of their hazardous quest Parsifal, the Quester, and his fellow adventures happened to arrive in a country ruled over by a prince named the Fisher King.

Sibyl•In a Greek mythology, Sibyls were women of prophetic power, that of Cumae being the most famous of them.•She was beloved of Apollo who granted her the gift of immortality, but without internal youth.•Translated into English, the Epigraph means, “Once I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage…”•She answered, “I want to die”.

Life –Death –Rebirth: Recurrent pattern runs though all myth:Winter DeathApril Re-BirthRain Life This recurrent pattern has been taken over in the Christian myth, in the birth of Christ, his crucification, and his resurrection.

The Vegetation and Fertility myths.

• The Waste Land is an important achievement of 20th century Eliot described mythical background of Waste Land by immersing or giving the different myths like the grail Legend, The Fisher king.

Conclusion