Prufrock Allusions

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According to the incoherence of the poem, Eliot shifts it to the allusion to prince Hamlet of Denmark, whom father was killed by his uncle eventually hamlet wanted to take revenge, but he is caught in a ‘to be or not to be’ situation, and that his hesitation becomes a fact. The affinity here with Hamlet is also ironic, as Hamlet was not a modern man or a regular middle aged man from London & St. Louis who is indecisive timid, and hesitant. Eliot’s style of mock hero the two characters are caught in a situation of must take an action in which Prufrock must go and approach his lady, and Hamlet must face his uncle and take revenge upon him. But one can feel the disability and the claim in Prufrock; the words “I m not prince Hamlet” then who is to be …show more content…

The servant or attendant is silly and braggart who uses a lot of proverbs, means a man of words and not actions. This allusion serves to reflect the futility of Prufrock with a comparison to that of the classical time of Denmark, thus the theme of futility and anarchy is originated in the personality of man in all times. Moving towards the end of the poem, Eliot deepens the state of despair and hopelessness in the personae Prufrock, as he gives an account of his future situation, again jumps between tenses; past present, and future. Prufrock predicts his coming days pessimistically, the thinks of himself as grown old, he explains that he would go weak as he progress in age and wonders if he will still be able to eat peach a little bit hand to bite with teeth fruit, and again he wonders whether he would have the ability to walk upon the beach. These are some of the hardest things for old man to do, Prufrock regrets the wasted power of his

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