“I never found a companion that was quite as companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau, a popular transcendentalistic author and writer of Walden, is a huge advocate of loneliness, in the way that means separation from society. However, Edgar Allen Poe, a well known dark romantic author, believes that we all have a severe appetite for being a part of society. In literature, we can see how the relationship between the individual and society tie together and differ between each individual, but can be somewhat generalized between groups of people. And with that, literature has a huge impact on social norms and establishes the way society should act. However, that does not mean that individuals act that way. Some of these ways for people
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He is a post traumatic stress disorder patient who observes his surroundings, which revolves around mental ward in the 1960s. In one point in the book, he hid in the janitor’s closet, thus secluding himself from the rest of the ward and begins to hallucinate the scene of his past with his father in the Columbia river, then proceeds to imagine a chaotic scene of an air raid in the closet. During the “raid,” everyone is yelling at him, but he can not hear them, just see them. This proves that he fears if he leaves the rest of society and tries to be alone, he will feel bombarded with an impromptu war. Despite Kesey’s opinion of fear, other authors, such as William Faulkner, author for A Rose for Emily, has begged to differ in his short story. He sees antisocial behaviors in individuals and sees the social conduct of society as against those “odd balls,” such as Emily. The society in the tale seems very concerned and perplexed by how she had not been active in the community as they others were, making her a social outcast. While they do not know about how she killed her true love, a homosexual construction worker, and kept him for herself, they keep spreading rumors about her and her personal life across town. She is a representation of the anti-fear of the lack of human interaction because she is kept with the remembrance of the dead, instead. It is seen that the view of loneliness throughout
He is a post traumatic stress disorder patient who observes his surroundings, which revolves around mental ward in the 1960s. In one point in the book, he hid in the janitor’s closet, thus secluding himself from the rest of the ward and begins to hallucinate the scene of his past with his father in the Columbia river, then proceeds to imagine a chaotic scene of an air raid in the closet. During the “raid,” everyone is yelling at him, but he can not hear them, just see them. This proves that he fears if he leaves the rest of society and tries to be alone, he will feel bombarded with an impromptu war. Despite Kesey’s opinion of fear, other authors, such as William Faulkner, author for A Rose for Emily, has begged to differ in his short story. He sees antisocial behaviors in individuals and sees the social conduct of society as against those “odd balls,” such as Emily. The society in the tale seems very concerned and perplexed by how she had not been active in the community as they others were, making her a social outcast. While they do not know about how she killed her true love, a homosexual construction worker, and kept him for herself, they keep spreading rumors about her and her personal life across town. She is a representation of the anti-fear of the lack of human interaction because she is kept with the remembrance of the dead, instead. It is seen that the view of loneliness throughout