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This article explores the theme of absurdity and relationship between past and present in Tom Stoppards Arcadia. Literature is a mirror of life its always shows what is happening in the society. In this particular work Tom Stoppard explored the relationship between past and present. The past and the present have a mutual relationship which is essential for the traditional poet's work. When it comes to a literary work's conformity with the past, the past also do the accepted thing to it. T.S. Eliot analyze that a literary work of art have to be new or else it would "so not be a work of art." In order for a literary work to be traditional to the past at all, it must be new in some way--a new take on the past or else it would not be literary art at all, and would not fit in with all art as a complete. As a final point Eliot maintains that in order to know the past, one must be in the present. He explores that the present is "an awareness of the past in a way which the past's awareness of itself do not show." This proposes that the present is a essential vantage point for viewing the past as it actually is. In other words, with no the present, there would be no past. There is a likeness between both the past and literature we all understand completely, but not concretely. As we observe that Aesop's tales are measured mythical works of narrative yet at the same time we recognize the fact that they signify a fragment of history that is perpetually embedded in the timeline of the ancient works. The connection between history and literature will always be enveloping because one is the collection of activities and the other is the reflection of human life in its ever shifting form. Together they make up the representation of our humanity, but still leave sufficient space for more questions.