Be Responsible and Take Action in Shakespeare, Aeschylus...

Shakespeare along with Aeschylus and T. S. Eliot use character from each of their respectable work including Hamlet, Agamemnon and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to demonstrate one must responsibly be able to decide and take action in desperate times in order to prevent tragedy or greater loss. Through the text of these three prominent literacy works from the ancient history to the 1900’s, one element that is evident in all three literature works is hamartia, which is directly related to the protagonist making a tragic error that eventually leads to the final cataclysm. To get a deeper insight of how hamartia plays a big role in these works, the audience has to get a better understanding of the main character/protagonist of each play and get familiar with their personality traits along with how they act in desperate times in order to prevent tragedy, or be the cause of it. Prince Hamlet in â€Å"Hamlet†, Agamemnon from Aescylus’ work along with Prufrock fr om The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock are seen as victims of their personality flaws through the text presented as eventually the outcome is seen as a tragic end for these characters due to their fatal errors. Point1: One must be able to balance between reason and passion as reason falls towards rational thinking while passion leads towards making irrational decisions. Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play is known as a tragic hero due the fact that he was bound for greatness but his fall came as a result of his personality