AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Waste Land, Mother Goddess
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Pg 44- introduces freddie, foreshadows that he will appear again; freddie is still the same guy that he was, offered a version of ichiro five weeks later. Dead/aliveness - he is alive, but is actually dead; wants to live. Stands in front of a broken mirror - reflection of oneself, series of pieces. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one"s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one"s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, - an american, a. Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Notion that the self is breaking apart; self is not able to hold on. Modernism as a rejection of the past, movement towards the future.
