“Living and Partly Living” “ The Chorus plays an important role in T.S. Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral.” In order to help show what was happening throughout the book, T.S. Eliot made the women of Canterbury the Chorus. This gave him many advantages due to the fact that women, at the time, were looked down upon and disregarded as insignificant beings. The character of the Chorus also changes, changing the mood of the …showed first 75 words of 849 total…

…showed last 75 words of 849 total…right and screaming out against it. In this way, by making the Chorus women, T.S. Eliot has given himself an advantage. The women were able to see everything, to witness all and relate what really happened without blowing everything out of proportion. The Chorus also helped him to shift the mood of the play by changing its character, from going from “living and partly living” to fully living, knowing what it is to live.