Life in modern society was suffered rather than lived. The lives of individuals in modern society were bound by routine, devoid of originality and meaning, which saw them turn to spiritually and emotionally corrupting influences to resist the endless and morbid cycle of home and work that was their life. This is the vision of life in modern society created by TS Eliot in his work 'Preludes'. Modernism was characterized by the growth of capitalism and consumerism, spurred by the industrial revolution, mixed with the shock and devastation of the First World War. The emphasis of material gain over originality, the sacrifice of meaning in the pursuit of commodities, as well as the subversion of gender roles, with women replacing absent soldiers in the workforce, such betrayals of tradition influenced the Anglophile T.S. Eliot, through disturbing images and the fragmented style of his work, to challenge the deterioration of society at the hands of modernism. Through the nameless and somewhat distant character of "Preludes," Eliot applies a torturous fate to all members of modern society, reflecting Eliot's unflinching conclusion that no substantial achievement could be achieved in a society devoid of traditional ways of art, politics, economics or religion. TS Eliot's early works are renowned for their nihilistic motivations and reflect complete disgust and contempt for modernist society, being "driven by skepticism" according to B Rajan. Eliot's poems such as "Preludes" (1917), "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" (1915), "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Portrait of a Lady" (1915) and "The Wasteland" ( 1922) are all similarly thematized about the doomed fate and tortuous meaninglessness of early 20th-century American society. Eliot's as......middle of paper......society's growth despite advances in technology and science is hindered by a lack of imagination and originality. The stationary nature of society drags readers into an inevitable cycle of work and home, poverty and despair. The fact that no hint of relief is given fully reveals the need for escape that has bred corruption within society. When coupled with the aforementioned recurring images of desolation, connoting persistent poverty despite the toil of individuals, the understanding that life is a matter of endurance rather than success resonates in the minds of readers. The search for meaning can therefore safely be considered unattainable and a true failure. The ideas created through the representation and the implications of time tie together the elements of Eliot's view of life in modern society as unfortunate, useless and insubstantial..