The paramount social issue that was at stake around 1919, when Eliot is said to have begun to plan for The Waste Land, must have been the First World War just ended and the appalling reality of destruction it had resulted in. On top of it all, 1919 was the year in which hot discussion was being made, throughout the European society, concerning the Treaty of Versailles, whether it was to lead to another huge destruction, namely, the end of the Europian society as a whole. The fundamental pattern of the problem that Eliot saw under the circumstances, and dramatized in The Waste Land, was the "dominator mentality" of the people in power and the huge destruction of life as a result of it. In this particular point The Waste Land can be said to have been initiated by the same impulse that brought the ecofeminists into existence in the latter half of the twentieth centuty. For the dominator mentality of man and its dangerous tendency for destroying life is the main point of the criticism the ecofeminists have directed against the western patriarchal society for having brought the whole mankind to the brink of total ecodestruction. Further, the solution The Waste Land presents for the problem of life destroyed is to be found in some of the ancient human traditions -- another point the vision of The Waste Land merges, or rather seems to merge, with that of the ecofeminists. The ancient human traditions of the poem, the Nature Cults of primitive people, and more importantly, the "Grail romances" of the medieval period, however, are represented in such a fragmentary way as suggest their selective, not total, adoption on Eliot`s part. The solution of The Waste Land departs, at this point, from the pure desire of the primitive people for the state of life, and thereby, from that of the ecofeminists who argue for the necessity for the total reclamation of the ancient human traditions that exhibited the pure desire for the state of life.