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Murder in Cathedral
by
T. S. Eliot
Summary
he Archbishop's Hall on December 2nd, 1170
The Chorus - which comprises women of Canterbury, all commoners - enter and stand near the cathedral
"the land became/brown sharp points of death in a waste of water and mud"
Thomas Becket : 7 years
"have suffered various oppression,/ But mostly [they] are left to [their] own devices.”
Three priests enter the hall.
Herald
Herald remembers Thomas's last words to Henry before his exile - "I leave you as a man/Whom in this life I shall not see again"
The First Priest : remembers how, when Thomas was Chancellor, he was "flattered by the King" but hated by the barons whose affairs he oversaw.
The Second Priest insists that Thomas will give them political guidance and tell them how they should feel.
The Third Priest begs for patience - "let the wheel turn… For who knows the end of good or evil?" (179)
Thomas Becket enters
They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer.
They know and do not know, that acting is suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer
Nor the patient act. (182)
4 Tempters
Thomas accepted his fate.
"we mourn, for the sins of the world that has martyred them; we rejoice, that another soul is numbered among the Saints in Heaven, for the glory of God and for the salvation of men"
"the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in his submission to God"
"I do not think I shall ever preach to you again"
The first scene of Part II takes place in the Archbishop's Hall on December 29th, 1170. It has been four days since the sermon of the Interlude, and 27 days since Part I. The Chorus of women gives an ominous address about the arrival of deep winter, noting how the winter brings momentary peace from man's aggressive wars: "The world must be cleaned in the winter" (201).
Four knights enter. All four are excitable - they have just come from France with business from King Henry, who was in France at the time of Becket's assassination.
Priests and Knights
Knights murdered Thomas Becket
The Chorus gives the final speech while a Latin song, the Te Deum, is sung in the background.
"the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints"
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