Similarities Between Hamlet, Agamemnon And The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

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Thesis: Tragedy was a source of entertainment back from the Ancient Greece that was written to tell a story and to pull audiences into feeling remorse and pity. It was also used to help the audience gain an appropriate response about the protagonist. Hamlet, Agamemnon, and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is comparable pieces of literature that shares a similar element of Hamartia. Main points: With a common element of Hamartia that is being shares among the three pieces of literature, comes the similarities and the differences. The similarities that audiences can see throughout the text are that the entire protagonist from each of the text faced consequences at the end. Another similarity that is common among this text is that they were all manipulated by someone around them. The differences of these texts are the personality of the protagonist. Evidence: Hamlet – “Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee.— I am dead, Horatio.—Wretched queen, adieu!— You that look pale and tremble at this chance, That are but mutes or audience to this act, Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest), O, I could tell you— But let it …show more content…

Alfred Prufrock”, one should not forget that there are differences too. Evidence: Hamlet: “How strange or odd some 'er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on)” Agamemnon: “loud and ringing cry was of war, from anger, like vultures which in extreme anguish for their young wheel and spiral high above their nests […]. On high, someone – either Apollo or Pan or Zeus – hears the birds ' wailed lament, the sharp cry of these settlers in their home, and for the transgressors ' later punishment sends a Fury. In just this way the mighty Zeus who guards hospitality sends Atreus ' sons against Alexandros, because of a woman with many

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