A once connected community of rich relations among one another and constant interaction with numerous people throughout the day has simply transformed into a consumption of screens, gadgets and isolation. A sharp decrease in social connectedness over the past 20 years has alarmed scientists at Duke University that describe social connectedness as a crucial factor in the way that humans were designed to function. The toll it takes on humans is the drastic increase in vulnerability to mental illness. Isolation has a detrimental effect on a person’s mental state, way of living and communication throughout their life.
The idea that isolation causes mental illness, displayed in many different ways, is explored in literature. Confined, confused …show more content…
This sounds real. I realize all of the sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years,” (Kesey 16). The absence of laughter …show more content…
Strongly encouraged by his parents, Chris McCandless felt extreme mental pressure and distress as his parents had his future planned out for him shown when Jon Krakauer says “...more than twenty-four thousand dollars remained at the time of Chris’s graduation, money his parents thought he intended to use for law school ( Krakauer 20).” In one example in Chris’s life, his parents were nearly never present because they were always working, yet they continued to have a high standard for Chris’s life. The absence of his parents in his early years led Chris to feeling mentally burdened and troubled. Chris did not want to go to Law school like his parents wanted for him and therefore returned to an even more isolated state outside of his home and disappeared. Explored in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the narrator displays oppression while imprisoned in a chamber by: “Like a razor also it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above. It was appended to a weighty rod of brass, and the whole hissed as it swung through the air (Poe 20).” In the story, while the narrator was alone in his chamber, the idea that he was being oppressed was epitomized in many ways. The narrator was being treated in cruel and unjust ways as the quote tells of the massive blade swinging above him on a table. Not only can the form of maltreatment be present
The idea that isolation causes mental illness, displayed in many different ways, is explored in literature. Confined, confused …show more content…
This sounds real. I realize all of the sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years,” (Kesey 16). The absence of laughter …show more content…
Strongly encouraged by his parents, Chris McCandless felt extreme mental pressure and distress as his parents had his future planned out for him shown when Jon Krakauer says “...more than twenty-four thousand dollars remained at the time of Chris’s graduation, money his parents thought he intended to use for law school ( Krakauer 20).” In one example in Chris’s life, his parents were nearly never present because they were always working, yet they continued to have a high standard for Chris’s life. The absence of his parents in his early years led Chris to feeling mentally burdened and troubled. Chris did not want to go to Law school like his parents wanted for him and therefore returned to an even more isolated state outside of his home and disappeared. Explored in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the narrator displays oppression while imprisoned in a chamber by: “Like a razor also it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above. It was appended to a weighty rod of brass, and the whole hissed as it swung through the air (Poe 20).” In the story, while the narrator was alone in his chamber, the idea that he was being oppressed was epitomized in many ways. The narrator was being treated in cruel and unjust ways as the quote tells of the massive blade swinging above him on a table. Not only can the form of maltreatment be present