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NATURE VERSUS DEGENERATED MORALS IN THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK AND THE WASTE LAND

Shiv Ratan Godara

Volume: 2 Issue: 1 2012

Abstract:

In every sphere of life, whether it be moral, spiritual or emotional, he uses the weapon of his rationality to win over the enemy of his unlimited desires neglecting the assistance offered to him by his morality, spirituality and emotionality. He sees only through the glass of materialism and rationalism. And the ultimate result of this is his indifference towards moral, spiritual and emotional values. He turns into beast; forgets his humanity; and thus, he is subjected to eternal miseries and misfortunes. The cluster of degeneration in today’s modern man can be defined in terms one by one. First of all, Moral Degeneration. This sort of degeneration in today’s man has taken place because of the scarcity of the long cherished traditional moral values, virtues and qualities which a human being should possess to be humane. These are vanishing speedily leaving him morally blank. Today’s modern man lacks in courtesy, politeness, honesty and civility. He doesn’t consider others equal to him. He doesn’t respect others’ existence whether it is of a man or of an animal. He has become dead like a stone. He has neither kindness nor sympathy towards his fellow beings. He has forgotten how to behave how to talk how to treat his fellow being, and thus, he has turned into a haughty creature, which believes in the philosophy of his own and strives to fulfill his selfish ends. In such a morally degenerated environment nothing good can flourish.

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