Loneliness

In her novel, The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall draws her readers into her novel by creating a likable and relatable character that resonates. Her portrayal of Stephen as an intelligent, caring girl, with perhaps tomboyish qualities, endears her to the readers if not many of those with whom she has interactions. By allowing readers to get to know and relate to Stephen as an individual first, while only hinting at the aspect of sexuality, Hall creates an applicable story that anyone can…

Society is autonomous and incapable of being controlled; it oppresses some and shows favor to others. It manipulates the ways of the world and appointed men to be the slave drivers over women. Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers centralizes on the idea of inequality between the two genders and the silent yet powerful female opposition to it. The use of the name Minnie Foster, also referred to as Mrs. Wright, signifies the how her individuality is minimized, the equivalence of her name, through…

ends up contacting someone due to his immense loneliness and depression. Holden is a character that judges people. Doing so, he feels surrounded by phonies because he feels that most people that surround him are hypocrites, and they are never innocent and real. Therefore,…

In response to #18 on application I believe myself to be rehabilitated in full. My incident was a time where I made a mistake that I never have before. Since that time, I have set hours to complete all community service and ordered counseling. I started my community service and counseling right away as I know how important it is to complete what is ordered. By December 10, I plan to have all community service completed. I am working at a community tutoring center and a state park in order to…

melancholy and distress, thus, develop into loneliness. Alma, from the book The History of Love, gains her loneliness from her absentee father. Her father died when she was eight, everything change. She only has one friend, Misha, but when she got cold feet, they stop talking to each other. Although she likes Misha, she is the one who push Misha away. Moreover, she even tries to find a character from the book in the real world, which is…

possess and ambitions we want to satisfy. While loneliness is the state of feeling unhappy because of being alone, solitude is a condition of peace from one’s choice to be alone. Loneliness is a prison of the mind, where one involuntarily resides, but constantly longs to escape, whereas solitude is a peaceful and quiet garden, where one is content with the absence of others. With happiness the ultimate goal, or the top of the ladder, loneliness is a step down, while solitude is a step up,…

Loneliness is an ailment that affects every living creature, as animals have this instinct of mating which is one way of socializing. Many people go through such an odyssey in the early stage of their life in order to please society, in order to please their peers, and end up realizing how much time was wasted worrying about not being lonely. The fact that loneliness is such a universal idea and feeling makes many wonder as to why this fear has not been overcome. Loneliness is a feeling or…

Bringing Light to College Students Loneliness Haley L. Earhart ENG-105 Students enter college with high expectations due to the rumors spread by society. There are many things that college students do not expect when entering college, and one such thing is loneliness. Frank Bruni writes about something that he deems is often underestimated in the college freshman life, and that is the loneliness freshmen experience during, what is most students first time away from home. Bruni brings to light…

Loneliness is something no body enjoys but everyone experiences. Some people choose to be lonely, such as Crooks, while others are forced, such as Curley’s wife and candy. Crooks has a bunk all to himself, which would've been nice at times, whereas everyone else had 3 roommates. This isolation made Crooks feel like he was alone. Curley’s wife and Candy experience loneliness because the both can no longer to talk to the person that meant the most to them. (Curley and Candy's dog) In John…

they are and they do the same with us. As Turkle put it “We can’t get enough of each other, if we can have each other at a distance, in amounts that we can control (2011).” That’s why Social networking sites are in general a contributor to the loneliness…