Archetypal Approach to Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Archetypal criticism is a branch of literary criticism which investigates and studies repetitive narrative structures, character types, themes, motifs and images that according to Carl Jung are universally shared by people of all cultures. These repetitive patterns are a result of universal forms on structures in the human psyche, which when presented well in literature immediately draw a strong response from the reader as he / she shares the archetypes expressed by the author.