Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
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Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single
character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to
himself. The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno,"
provides a key to ....
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.... "Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" he asks.
Prufrock knows the women in the saloons "known them all" and he
presumes how they classify him and he feels he deserves the classification,
because he has put on a face other than his own. "To prepare a face to meet
the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed
to do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with
his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He
imagines how fo ....
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