Hollow Men T.S. Eliot

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1922 was when Hollow men were created and he was possibly trying to portray Humankind’s loss of way from the Church and the sterility of modern technology and inventions. The fact that may technology of resulted in a loss of humanity, loss of identity, and sense of purpose, in their community. This was right after WWI so he was probably saying that the technology and ruthlessness of the war really had devastating effects on people. Yes it was for a country and for a war but in reality that wasn’t the case at all people probably felt numb and hollow despite working for this great cause. That and in WWI was a turn point in machinery so technology had aided in a faster mode of transportation of supplies as well as a more efficient way of killing off people (Machine guns, airplanes and bombs). So in a sense the victims of the aftermath of the war were hollow only clinging to bits of life as everything around them had been disintegrated into nothing.

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