Question

How eliot's murder in the cathedral a moral play?

Answer 1

How is Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral a moral play? Murder in the Cathedralis about the Archbishop of Canterbury's moral struggle against Henry II. ... Thomas Becket, the archbishop, arrives at Canterbury at odds with the King. During the play, four tempters try to persuade the archbishop to violate his conscience.

Answer 2

Download citation | The Formal and Moral... | T. S. Eliot's great play , Murder in the Cathedral (1935) challenges its audience on several fronts. It is a difficult play , whose formal artifices, typical of modernist literature though they are, often prove ...