T. S. 엘리엇의 「J. 알프레드 프루프록의 연가」와 셰익스피어의 『햄릿』: “자기와의 대화” 에 나타난 극적 독백

Abstract

Prufrock compares himself to Hamlet, and then denies his importance for himself (“No! I am not a Prince, Hamlet”) and returns to his usual self-deprecation, announcing that he is not an important person through self-telling. In his own opinion, he would be a merely minor character in a play, not a protagonist, being faithful to his soliloquy. Prufrock and Hamlet inhabit a world in which something seems identical and time seems to be each common character. It seems they have the lifeless aspect of their dialogues with each monologue, developing the poetic drama. In other words, T. S. Eliot describes Prufrock’s speech as the drama like the poem and the poem like the drama. Each dialogue with the self relies on the reader’s imagination and decision to make decisions that are faithful to him, portraying the voice as a linguistic text in Hamlet of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Prufrock from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” two voices between ego and the split-ego which may be post-ego. The voice of self-telling expressed in these conversations is a dramatic monologue made of linguistic texts that form Hamlet’s self-image, and this is a conversation with himself that preserves tradition and individuality. In a nut shell, the monologue of self-telling is a more powerful image than anything else.