Ending of Procrastinanting

   In T.S Elliot’s poem, “A Love Song”, and Shakespeare’s famous “Hamlet”, although very distinct works, come to have a common thread. J. Alfred Prufrock, the protagonist of the poem, “A Love Song” has a terrible problem, he has an obsession for a lover that he doesn’t “dare” to invite. Prince Hamlet encounters this same problem because he always wants to kill King Claudius but is never brave enough to do so. They both wonder too much about there actions and end up doing nothing. Prufrock even lingers upon “daring to eat a peach” meaning that even the things that most of us do unconsciously he wonders over and over again. Whenever he was going to act, he would ask himself if it “would have been worth it” and leaves it for the next day. He says that there is “time” for him to act, but as the poem starts progressing Prufrock starts “growing old” and time starts to run out. For Hamlet a similar situation rises, which is that Claudius is abusing more of his power making Hamlet's job harder because Claudius is wanting to send him away. Both Prufrock and Hamlet start encountering themselves with obstacles making their goals harder. The difference is that Prufrock never gets his wakeup call that he should act. Nevertheless, Hamlet does, by seeing the actor in the play avenging his father while he wasn’t doing anything. Hamlet, after seeing this scene says “O, vengeance, what an ass am I” meaning that he realized that he was a coward for not taking charge against Claudius. Although Hamlet at the end does accomplish his goal, and Prufrock doesn’t, they both die. In the poem Prufrock says "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was I meant to be" meaning that he realized that his outcome wasn't going to be the same as Hamlet's of reaching his goal. Maybe if they hadn’t procrastinated for so long their actions, their endings would have been different. Prufrock would might of married this woman, instead of fearing mankind, and Hamlet would of gotten his revenge without suffering a painful death.