Unveiling Religious and Political Paradoxes: A New Historical Reading ofT.S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

Abstract

The political and religious conflicts between King Henry and Archbishop have been depicted fluctuating one aboveanother in the play Murder in the Cathedral. There is obviously, murder, intrigue, killing and suffering but they all are creative. The power, sometimes, goes to the King and sometimes to the priest Archbishop. This thesis reveals that both politics andreligion are ideological constructs based on false assumption of power. Moreover, by taking the incident of murder, this research “Unveiling Religious and Political Paradoxes: A New Historical Reading of T.S. Eliot’sMurder in the Cathedral” tries to expose the paradoxes underlying between the two ideologies i.e. religion and politics where there is greed of power to rule over others.