An artwork is foremost a reflection and expression

It has been fundamentally argued since time immemorial of how an art depart is foremost a reflection and facial gesture of the deeper emotions and values of an artist, which may sometimes be unfortunately suppressed in the artists life or unintentionally implied in the artwork. For that matter, some(prenominal) artwork is perhaps considered an artists in the flesh(predicate) shimmer driven in a creative manner of expression. Sophie Treadwells play, Machinal, and T.S. Eliots poem, The deal Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, be be fitting examples of modern human drama relatively framed in a dark, lonesome, and tragic milieu of love, death, age, solitude, and hopelessness in the ordinal century.In Eliots poem, the narrator or talker in his poem is a contemporary man who feels secluded brought by the fear of aging, and who is indecisive to act upon his crisis on love for a woman. The vocaliser Prufrock is rather an epitome of despair, frustration, and helplessness of the modern man t oward a personal crisis. Prufrock positions himself as a symbol of disillusionment and dismay for failing to get well his human weaknesses. What makes the poem or the vocalizer tragic is that his insecurity on a lot of things is holding his happiness in life and love. He remains to be brooding, dark, lonesome and awaits death in no time.Eliot has everlastingly been a difficult read, and this quality of writing has put him in the level of other literary masters. For a non-Eliot reader, the poem may initially look confusing to understand. However, the speaker Prufrock has been endowed by Eliot the style of iterateing occurrence phrases and going back to his main sentiment while the poem develops into a whole new set of ideas. This style is reassuring the reader that he can understand the deeper emotions of the speaker as he slowly reads through and through it. On one hand, this repetition may in addition show the speakers inability to communicate well with the society, and he n eeds to repeat words such as vision and revision to be understandably understood.Eliot possesses an ironic manner of writing that is very well implied on how Prufrock dialog about his love for a woman but is coward enough to idle up his feelings and of how he even contradictorily speaks of time as he would sense the urgency to capture life and love in his detainment before old age and death take him away, but would also set it aside and reveal that there is still time to doodad up on things.The first two similar characteristics or qualities of Treadwells play with Eliots poem are the twentieth century ground and powerful themes of death and despair, even though the formers work is based on a sensational real murder subject area and the latter is more of a personal struggle brought about by aging.Machinal is also similar with Prufrocks written image of pessimism and depression for things that they are incapable of having, but both end in different resolutions. Machinals main ch aracter, Helen, is unhappily matrimonial to a vicious man and to that extent happily having an extra-marital affair with a younger man. But, Helen being incapable of attractive the younger man in the most proper ways as dictated by societys conventions, murders her husband and releases herself from the wretched married life. In the case of Prufrock, he remains attached to his fears of opening up to his love and to the society.Machinal is as powerful and intense as Prufrock in its demo of despair over love. Machinal is desperately consumed with two kinds of love as antecedently stated. What makes Helen a tragic hero interchangeable Prufrock is their disparate heroism takes them non into the world of admiration, but into a world of utmost dismay and despair theirs is a tragic presentation of surrender to an inescapable human obstruction of frustrating emotions.Treadwell is capable of repetitive rhythm like a exotic poem a quite tricky concept like Eliot moreover incorpora ted the theatrical lingo of any expressionistic writing during the twentieth century. To say expressionistic is to only define the attributes of human emotions, not unavoidably placing it into an approach of realism. But, moreover, Machinal is an engaging, dark display of human wickedness doomed like Prufrocks love song.Works CitedTreadwell, Sophie. Machinal (Royal National Theatre). London Nick Hern Books, 1995.T. S. Eliot The drive in Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.<http//www.uvm.edu/sgutman/Eliot.htm>