Author/Authors :
köseman, zennure inönü university - faculty of arts and sciences - the department of western languages and literatures, Turkey
Title Of Article :
A Comparative View of Eliot’s “Prufrock” and Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” in terms of the Mental States of Isolation, Alienation, and Anomie
Abstract :
The meaninglessness of modern life caused by a state of alienation, isolation and anomie has been reflected in literary works forming an important thematic basis in the twentieth century. T. S. Eliot highlights this theme in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is hereafter abbreviated as ‘Prufrock’). Eliot directly focuses on this theme in his literary works and influenced many other prominent writers on this theme. This article draws comparisons in views between how Eliot’s psychological evaluation of characters in the case of alienation, isolation, and anomie impacts on other writers such as Katherine Mansfield, who has a Prufrock-like character in “Miss Brill”. This, due to the way Eliot definines the psyche of prototypical modern people as he does in “Prufrock”. The way Miss Brill behaves reflects her alienation and isolation in her society. In this study, the comparison of a poem and a short story with the same thematic basis shows how writers successfully deal with the same matter in different contexts of different literary genres.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Anomie , Alienation , Isolation , Modern Litererature , T. S. Eliot , Katherine Mansfield
JournalTitle :
Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities
