An artwork is foremost a reflection and expression

It has been essentially argued since time antiquated of how an artwork is foremost a reflection and expression 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, any artwork is by chance considered an artists personal drama set in a creative fashion of expression. Sophie Treadwells play, Machinal, and T.S. Eliots poetry, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ar be fitting examples of modern hu creation drama relatively shut in in a somber, l one and only(a)some, and tragical milieu of live, wipeout, age, solitude, and despair in the twentieth century.In Eliots song, the narrator or speaker in his poem is a contemporary man who feels secluded brought by the fear of aging, and who is hesitant to act upon his crisis on sexual love for a woman. The speaker Prufrock is rather an abstract of despair, frustration, and helplessness of the modern man towa rd a personal crisis. Prufrock positions himself as a symbol of disillusionment and dismay for failing to all overcome his human weaknesses. What makes the poem or the speaker tragic is that his insecurity on a down of things is h sometime(a)ing his happiness in life and love. He remains to be brooding, dark, lonesome and awaits death in no time.Eliot has always been a hard 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 seem confusing to project. However, the speaker Prufrock has been endowed by Eliot the style of repeating particular phrases and going bottom to his main sentiment while the poem develops into a whole new-fangled set of ideas. This style is reassuring the reader that he can understand the deeper emotions of the speaker as he slowly reads through it. On one hand, this repetition may also show the speakers inability to communicate well with the society, and he needs to repeat w ords such(prenominal) as vision and revision to be clearly understood.Eliot possesses an ironic manner of writing that is very well implied on how Prufrock talks about his love for a woman tho is coward enough to open up his feelings and of how he even contradictorily speaks of time as he would sense the want to capture life and love in his hands before old age and death take him away, but would also set it deviation and reveal that there is still time to catch up on things.The first two resembling characteristics or qualities of Treadwells play with Eliots poem are the twentieth century setting and powerful themes of death and despair, even though the formers work is based on a sensational real murder sideslip and the latter is more(prenominal) 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 in surefooted of having, but both end in different resolutions. Machinals main ch aracter, Helen, is deplorably married to a vicious man and yet happily having an extra-marital conflict with a younger man. But, Helen being incapable of loving 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 presentation of despair over love. Machinal is desperately consumed with two kinds of love as previously stated. What makes Helen a tragic hero like Prufrock is their disparate heroism takes them not into the world of admiration, but into a world of utmost dismay and desperation theirs is a tragic presentation of surrender to an inescapable human obstacle of frustrating emotions.Treadwell is capable of repetitive rhythm like a strange poem a quite tricky concept like Eliot yet incorporated the representation lingo of any expressionistic writing during the twentieth century. To say expressionistic is to only define the attributes of human emotions, not necessarily 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 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.