Resumen de Culpa y expiación: expresión de la espiritualidad en "The Family Reunion" de T. S. Eliot
A remarkable quality of The Family Reunion, T.S. Eliot's poetic drama, is its capacity to elude facts, concrete actuality. To dramatise the immaterial element of the play, the writer uses various techniques, being the most conspicuous the linguistic recourse to either particles of a negative and contradictory meaning, or expressions which enhance what is absent, inexpressible, inscrutable. These linguistic devices, together with the use of Greek mythology, are means to create a tragic mood and an atmosphere of suspense and secrecy, as the background for the evasive characters' feelings and behaviour. By studying them, we will prove that Eliot is not concerned with actions or physical events, but with spiritual, inaccessible and irrevocable situations, with insecure and disillusioned characters. Thus, the analysis here offered will give us an insight into the author's use of language and mythology to formulate the spiritual texture of the play.
