ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Hollowness is the quality created by the destruction of the object. Eliot portrays the traumatic consequences of a catastrophic war as lifelessness, emptiness and 'sightlessness'. From internal deadness to a deadly ideology is perhaps less of a leap than is apparent in the first instance. Eliot describes here a blindness that is a kind of depression, a kind of withdrawal from life, a kind of deadness. The glue to all these tenets is violence and a masculinity that is hard, unyielding, un-democratic, and uncompromising. This pure masculinity is cleansed of all foreign bodies that might weaken it and feminise it. It is true that the emptiness, and the wish for emptiness and homogenisation, that forms part of deep early longings to which both the traumatised individual and the fascist returns, is common to both men and women.
