An Analysis of Hamlet’s Paralysis in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (1697 words, 2 pages)
Prufrockian paralysis Paralysis, the incapacity to act, has been the Achilles heel of many famous, mostly male, literary characters. Shakespeare's Hamlet is the paragon of paralysis unable to sort through his waffling, anxious mind, Hamlet makes a decisive action only at the end of "Hamlet." Eliot parodically updates Hamlet's paralysis ...
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