Tuesday, 5 February 2013

J. Alfred Prufrock & Hamlet.

J. Alfred Prufrock and Hamlet are two different people who resemble the lives of many people. They both experience the feeling of self doubt. They cannot make their own decisions on their lives and their deaths. My belief on their ways is that they aren't much different from each other.
You see Hamlet contemplating whether or not he should kill Claudius  and then you also see Prufrock debating if he should go for his love or not because he has all the time in the world. Both of these characters are going through an internal struggle with decision because they cannot make a knowledgeable decision.
Knowledgeable doesn't mean that they have to be smart, but that these characters can't think for themselves. They let everything else factor into what they want to do. For example: Prufrock blames time in not making a decision. He has too much time and can wait until the last minute of his life to tell his love that he loves her. Hamlet, he lets his family and other outside sources factor into him not killing Claudius (yet).
Things like these show that Hamlet and Prufrock aren't too different from each other. They each have internal struggles with the outside world that prevent them from making the decisions that they can either benefit from or let them ruin their lives. The negative and positive consequences will never be reached if they don't make a decision and not let the outside world factor into their own lives and thoughts to let them move on to what they want to do and with their own lives. 

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