Bravery

Live is a series of indecisions. Humans go day through day solving, posing and interpreting questions the environment jolts at them. One might conclude that humans live in a constant state of indecision, but where is the nature of such indecision. While listening to the podcast obvious relationships between the prisoners and Hamlet are perceived. While the prisoners have already overcome their indecision with killing and that is why they are where they are, Hamlet hesitates with this indecision throughout the play to finally act upon it and end up dying. The third type of indecision is that shown by Alfred Prufrock in T.S. Elliot’s poem in which after hours of meditation Prufrock accomplishes nothing. The question then is: who was the bravest of the three?

For the prisoners they took the decision to kill, acted on their impulses and ended up in jail. Looking it from the point of view of indecision, it was the best choice. They were able to grab reins of the situation acted and probably will have the rest of their lives to understand why they acted so. They will be able to comprehend something, maybe not all of them but they will have the time to reflect and find answers to why they did so.

Hamlet then is the second wimpiest of the three. Even though he staggers whether to kill Claudius or not throughout the whole play he finally does. The problem was it was too late, as minutes later he would be joining his uncle in death. Hamlet did act on his indecision and was able to see a result. Yet, he could not completely grasp his actions, not as the prisoners that will have a lifetime to de so. Hamlet never had the time to think it over and develop a conclusion whether his actions were worth it or not.

Lastly, we have Prufrock. He gives remorse in the scale of bravery. He was a wimp unable to complete his life actions because of fear, fear of rejection and incapability. He was so scared of this woman that after year of hesitation whether to speak to her or not he decides not to. At the end he has nothing to reflect upon because he never did it. Not like Hamlet or the prisoners that at least they had the satisfaction of acting, instead Prufrock just sat there and watched all his dreams crumble.

Indecision is born when we question something, it is not wrong, what is not right is to let those feeling envelop your ideals and leave you in a state of limbo were you do not know how to act.