![]() Why does Celia have to die at the end? And what is the symbolic role of her death in the play? Why is she apparently crucified? Many original theatre-goers were shocked and repulsed by this part of the play, deeming it gratuitous. Eliot, that a play is a less personal form than a poem (for some reason we always assume a poem is about the poet, whereas we don’t do this with a piece of drama), and so – paradoxically – Eliot was able to make his plays more autobiographical precisely because people didn’t expect them to be personal.Ī few troubling questions remain about The Cocktail Party – questions which cannot be neatly resolved by analysis of the text. Lyndall Gordon remarks in her biography of Eliot, The Imperfect Life of T. Eliot’s plays are, in a sense, more clearly autobiographical than his poetry. ![]()
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