mod b essay - prufrock

Question 1

quotes for inability to adapt to changing values

Answer 1

• “like a patient etherized upon a table.”
• “women come and go/talking of michelangelo”
• “after the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor”
• “regard that women who hesitates towards…her eye twists like a crooked pin.”
• “sunless dry geraniums/And dust in crevices,/Smells of chestnuts in the streets.”

Question 2

quotes for lack of purpose

Answer 2

• “I am not prince Hamlet!…Am the attendant lord…full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse.”
• “at dusk in the narrow streets” looking at the “lonely men in shirt-sleeves”
• “a broken spring in a factory yard” with “rust that clings to the form that the strength had left…ready to snap”.
• “put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life/ The last twist of the knife.”

Question 3

inability to adapt to changing values topic sentence (P)

Answer 3

The human struggle to adapt to the morally deteriorating nature of societal values and norms is explored in The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock through Prufrock’s paralysis and fragmented escapism from his urban metropolis.

Question 4

inability to adapt to changing values topic sentence (R)

Answer 4

Similarly, the persona in Rhapsody on a Windy Night’s strenuous psychological endeavour of connecting with urban societies dynamic yet morally decaying values is explored through his obscured identity and entrapment in his own fragmented memories.

Question 5

lack of purpose topic sentence (P)

Answer 5

Prufrock’s restrained lust for self-purpose due to his struggle to adapt to the desensitised values of his modern society and his self-disillusionment, catalyses his futile experience of existence.

Question 6

lack of purpose topic sentence (R)

Answer 6

The repercussions of the persona’s inability to connect with the dehumanised values of his urban metropolis in Rhapsody on a Windy Night are addressed through his sabotaged sense of self-purpose and gradual dysfunctional decline.

Question 7

quotes for appearance

Answer 7

• “With a bald spot in the middle of my hair - (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)
• “My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin.”