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Essay Comparing Prufrock And Job

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Job is a book of the Bible by an unknown author, where the question, Why do good people suffer? is formulated. Generally, this text is a debate between Job and God, condensed into a poem. This book shows the relationship between humanity and the universe – In this case, God – and states the human demand to know one’s position in the world. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot is considered one of the most representative poems of Modernism because it shows how his main character has a meaningless life looking for an answer to his “overwhelming question”. As well as this, the poem shows a new connection between humans and the universe, in a dream-logic text. These two poems can be compared and contrasted on two main points: the thoughts about life and the relationship between humanity and the universe. The main similarities of these characters in this poems are their meaningless life and their hunger to know the reason for their existence. On the other side, an important difference whereas Job gets an answer, Prufrock does not.
Prufrock and Job have on common their meaningless …show more content…

Prufrock wants a meaning for his life but he knows that there are nothing and nobody that can give him an answer. In this poem, Eliot shows that humans are meaningless for the universe because what humans do is not going to affect it. This character knows that his life is nothing and he does not want to bother the universe in order to get his answer, “Do I dare Disturb the universe?.” As Prufrock, Job wants a real meaning of his life and does not want to conform with what the universe -God- gave to him. In the other side, Job is scared, feeling insignificant in comparison to the universe -God-. "If a man dies shall he live again?" Job 14:14, with this question, Job knows that he is a human and he is just mater in this

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