The Hollow Men AO5

• "It makes little difference whether the reader imagines that the hollow men are literally or figuratively dead" 


  Murphy
• 'Individuals without pity or energy or feeling for themselves or for others."

  Murphy
• "Post-catastrophic theology"


  Perry
• 'The speaker takes refuge in apathy'


  Smith
• 'Offers a fleeting glimpse of a way out of emptiness'

  Miller
• Context

  'Moral drift'  

  'The lost generation' - Stein
• 'a brilliant parody of religious ceremony'


  Perry
• 'their fearfulness of connection and proximity'


  Perry
• "Ritualised pointless activity that symbols the life fundamentally unlived" 

  Raine