ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Prufrock compares himself to Hamlet, and then dismisses his importance ("No! I am not Prince Hamlet") and returns to his usual self-deprecation, announcing that he is not an important person. In his opinion, he would be a minor character in a play, not the protagonist.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the essay, Eliot notoriously deems Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy an “artistic failure, ” maintaining that the play represents a “primary problem, ” and that it contains certain weaknesses as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mr. Robertson points out, very pertinently, how critics have failed in their “interpretation” of Hamlet by ignoring what ought to be very obvious: that Hamlet is a stratification, that it represents the efforts of a series of men, each making what he could out of the work of his predecessors.