Prufrock talks about needing to put on a different face for different situations and everyone can relate to either playing up or toning down different aspects of your personality based on the occasion. This deception could be viewed by the reader as a normal defense mechanism that all people, especially those with the self-confidence issues of Prufrock to be using all the time for his own protection. I believe that it shows once again how selfish Prufrock is, believing that he is the only person that might be putting on a different persona. “There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” (1116). Prufrock speaks of knowing all the eyes that are watching and judging him, stifling his ability to be his
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He says that he is simply a sidekick, not a noble hero but a possible narrator of sorts of the hero’s conquest. Prufrock is comparing himself to a minor character in a fictional drama, a play that is notorious for confused reality by the protagonist. Hamlet is struggling with if he is experiencing something real, Prufrock is avoiding the reality that exists by comparing himself to crabs and fictional characters. He was so afraid of rejection that he can’t even compare himself to Hamlet, who was a tragic character, but died a man of action and courage. Bojana Vujin described the nature of the lead character by stating “Prufrock lived so cautiously that he now must confront that he is just aged, with no real attachment to the world to show for it. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is, thus, a poem about a man consciously deceiving himself in order to make his life (more) bearable” (201). Prufrock isn’t accepting of his choices and creates a false reality of what he could have been, but is forced to face the reality of the road he chose to go down. Prufrock bounces around from how he should wear his trousers and eat fruit, to mermaids whisking him away to sea (1119). Prufrock can no longer live within his own mind, reality has caught up to him and only the human …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock that is relatable, because everyone can think about decisions they wish they could make, or things they could have said. Hindsight haunts even the most accomplished people at times, but Prufrock is forced to live life with no real hindsight, because he never chose to make any decisions. Prufrock is shallow, disconnected and fake, which is due to his inability to ever to take any sort of chance. Even those, such as Hamlet, who met their demise due to poor choices, at least had something to reflect on. Robert Frost’s iconic poem tells of a man who takes the road less traveled, Prufrock simply came to the fork and stopped. The poem is relatable because depression and struggle for self-identity is at an all-time high, I feel that an audience reading Eliot’s work today would identify with it as much or more so than the previous generations. That’s why the poem has remained relevant to this day, it’s themes of selfishness, and phoniness and fuzzy reality are internal themes that remain relevant to this
He says that he is simply a sidekick, not a noble hero but a possible narrator of sorts of the hero’s conquest. Prufrock is comparing himself to a minor character in a fictional drama, a play that is notorious for confused reality by the protagonist. Hamlet is struggling with if he is experiencing something real, Prufrock is avoiding the reality that exists by comparing himself to crabs and fictional characters. He was so afraid of rejection that he can’t even compare himself to Hamlet, who was a tragic character, but died a man of action and courage. Bojana Vujin described the nature of the lead character by stating “Prufrock lived so cautiously that he now must confront that he is just aged, with no real attachment to the world to show for it. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is, thus, a poem about a man consciously deceiving himself in order to make his life (more) bearable” (201). Prufrock isn’t accepting of his choices and creates a false reality of what he could have been, but is forced to face the reality of the road he chose to go down. Prufrock bounces around from how he should wear his trousers and eat fruit, to mermaids whisking him away to sea (1119). Prufrock can no longer live within his own mind, reality has caught up to him and only the human …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock that is relatable, because everyone can think about decisions they wish they could make, or things they could have said. Hindsight haunts even the most accomplished people at times, but Prufrock is forced to live life with no real hindsight, because he never chose to make any decisions. Prufrock is shallow, disconnected and fake, which is due to his inability to ever to take any sort of chance. Even those, such as Hamlet, who met their demise due to poor choices, at least had something to reflect on. Robert Frost’s iconic poem tells of a man who takes the road less traveled, Prufrock simply came to the fork and stopped. The poem is relatable because depression and struggle for self-identity is at an all-time high, I feel that an audience reading Eliot’s work today would identify with it as much or more so than the previous generations. That’s why the poem has remained relevant to this day, it’s themes of selfishness, and phoniness and fuzzy reality are internal themes that remain relevant to this