Solitude

I leaned into the open car window. “I’m just going to check out the house and try to get some reading done by the pond, Mom.” The summer assignment, after all, was to read Thoreau’s Walden, and what better place to do it than at Walden Pond? As the car window rolled up, I put a hand to my forehead and glanced up at the top of the trees. Its beauty was absolutely stunning, but envisioning the area the way it was described in the book with this road running so close to the pond was difficult.…

Isolation is a common theme among Canadian literary works. Farzana Doctor, in her novel Six Metres of Pavement, uses depression as a tool to illustrate the isolation of the main character from society. The theme of isolation is developed through Ismail Boxwala’s journey from self-confinement to self-acceptance. Ismail’s oppressive past consequently severs his connections, which causes him to be isolated. The desire Ismail has to find something that will help him out of isolation is conspicuous,…

St.Gregory of Nazianzus was born in 330 and died in 390 (Aquilina, p 173). His father, also Gregory, was originally a member of Hypsistiani religion, and was converted to Christianity by his wife Nonna. Together they had three children, including St. Gregory. Gregory’s father was ordained after the birth of the children, and became bishop of Nazianzus. St. Gregory was well educated; as a child he learned rhetoric in a school in Caesarea of Pontus. During his this time St. Gregory befriended…

Critics in the Resource Paper In “Birches”, Robert Frost, The speakers sees a tree that is bent and he tries to believe that the boys swinging on the limb is the reason for it being bent. He knows that the real reason for the tree being bent is the ice storms that occur. Throughout the poem the speaker uses his imagination to escape what is actually happening. The speaker is alone and captivated in his imagination. In the poem the isolation is not necessarily a bad thing but an escape from the…

The female quest for autonomy is not uncommon in literature, and Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is no exception. Throughout her novel, Cisneros connects each of her female characters to a Mexican or Chicana historical figure and then works to recreate that character, to pull her from the patriarchal structure in which all women live. The historical characters of Chicana and Mexican history include La Llorona, La Malinche, and the Virgin of Guadalupe, each representing…

Comparatively, Norma’s self-imposed isolation would be considered a foundation for her madness that is to follow. She went from being considered the virtuoso of silent movies to rapidly becoming an insignificant, disregarded movie star, which is the fundamental commencement of her seclusion from the harsh realities of the real world. Although this could be considered an act of ignorance by Norma, it could also be established that she could not physically handle her brisk decline into irrelevance…

Quoting Charles Bukowski, “Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but never felt right”. Loneliness is one of the main topics that Steinbeck emphasis in the novel. There are several character that go through the pain and suffering of loneliness. The two most loneliness characters that stood out are Crooks and Curley’s wife. Crooks is the black stable buck who experience insolation and loneliness on a daily basis. He never talks to other farm hands unless it is needed to perform…

when the minister and good old Duncan Gookin seized his arms and led him to the blazing rock,” p. 178. Hawthorne then adds suspense by causing Goodman Brown to get away the last minute. “Hardly had he spoken when he found himself amid calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the wind which died heavily away through the forest,” p. 179. Alas, hawthorne then reveals Goodman Brown’s experience to be a dream. Nevertheless, Goodman Brown continued to suffer the psychological…

backgrounds who have difficulty creating worthwhile relationships because of preconceived notions. From sexism to racism to ableism, various forms of discrimination create a sense of exclusion and loneliness. Steinbeck clearly creates an environment where solitude is not self inflicted but rather the result of social barriers and false…

Transcendentalism is described a person who finds satisfaction in solitude and nature. It was a nineteenth century movement in which mean people joined. In the book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is a transcendentalist, from the modern age, which means he enjoys the simplicity of life and deliberate living or living life with intentions. McCandless goes into the wild with the aspiration of finding himself through nature. In the eyes of a transcendentalist, they believe that…