What does this allusion reveal about Prufrock? No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two —"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot He resents his lowly place in life. He sees himself as a minor character. He is an actor in his spare time.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man