In this story the protagonist is Thomas Becket. Becket us the Archbishop of Canterbury and was the prior Chancellor of England. He would be portrayed as a noble hero. He took a stand for what he believed in and what he thought was right. Even though in the end it resulted in death, he was willing to go to all ends to stand for his cause. He was a very dedicated and proud man. He showed so much compassion for the cause of the Church to King Henry’s power. How the people react to Becket is either very positive or very negative. Some of the people supported him throughout everything, and would back him. Meanwhile, others would think it would be best if he was just dead. Becket struggles with internal conflicts throughout the story. As the story goes on he is faced with four tempters, which poses as a struggle for him to overcome. The fact that he can not be phased by these temptations shows that he is mentally a strong man. He can be classified as a dynamic character…show more content… Eliot has is a likable style of writing. His diction is very mild. He uses very complex words that may seem to be a little out dated today. Although his words complex, his sentence structure is short. The majority of the sentences are choppy, compared to being long and drug out. His sentences still are very good at painting a picture in the readers mind of what he wants the setting to look like. An example of this would be, “Go, weak sad men, lost erring souls, homeless in earths or heaven. Go where the sunset reddens the last grey rock of Brittany, or the Gates of Hercules. Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts. Where blackamoors make captive Christian men; go to the northern seas confined with ice. Where the dead breath makes numb the hand, makes dull the brain. Find an oasis in the desert sun.” (pg. 85) This is a perfect example of T.S. Eliot’s style in one excerpt. It shows the complexity of the words, yet the shortness of the sentence
