During the mid-twentieth century, Canada had undergone a spark in industrialization and use of technology. As the second world war had ended the Great Depression, the industrial economy began to take a significant uprise. P. K. Page’s “T-Bar” allows the speaker to show the social circumstances occurring in Canada of technology, tradition, and industrialization and nature in the mid-twentieth century.
Through the entrenchment of technology into society in the mid-twentieth century, Canadians had begun to gain dependence on the technological advancements. As technology had been integrated into the contemporary society, Canadians began to give technology meaning in society and in how people endure their everyday lives. With the constant incorporation …show more content…
As the skiers take the T-Bar, they consistently go under the arches, the speaker of Page’s T-Bar symbolizes the arches of the T-Bar as stages of life and the traditions which are involved in the stages. Moreover, as tradition remains a part of society, it has become “obdurate and slow” (Page 35). While tradition continued to impact society, it had become out of control and was slowly leading civilization to destruction. While society continues to condition its citizens to adhere to traditions, it had begun to make traditions a relentless indication of time. Through the traditional idea of marriage, the speaker uses the T-Bar as a symbol of being able to “pass through successive arches, bride and groom, As through successive naves, are newly wed” (Page 16-17). As the newlyweds can pass through the stages of getting older, with the support of tradition, the T-Bar, achieving the arches has become easier. The arches of the T-bar have been used to symbolize the many stages of life and how those in the constant flow through the arches have become “wards of eternity” (Page 14). With the ability to achieve disciplined through tradition, people had become imprisoned by the infinite repetition of traditions. As the T-bar is continuously running in a predetermined circuit, the speaker symbolizes the endless course humanity will continue due to its traditions. With the continuing cultivation of tradition, the speaker is able to show the infinite loop humanity has enclosed itself