Solitude

Mockingbird has an excellent example of a man who is shy, but is not unintelligent. There’s also examples in modern day to prove that quiet people have clever minds. People who identify themselves as being introverts, soft spoken and like to be in solitude, are often some of the world's most powerful people. In To Kill a Mockingbird Boo Radley is the book's biggest introvert. Scout, Jem, and Dill often make trips to the Radley place and sit outside trying to get messages to Boo or trying to…

Regarding Romanticism and Transcendentalism within human nature, it’s ways of thinking, feeling, and acting are bound to have positive and negative aspects. Combining knowledge from each spiritual movement, one can compare the differences and practicalities. To begin, Romanticism’s outlook on ways of thinking is to follow the heart. This can mean knowing what’s better for one’s being, but ultimately choosing the hearts thoughts. Though the idea of listening to the heart protrudes images of…

an epiphany and locked himself away in a tiny room for eighteen months to write his most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because his family had no income at the time, his wife was forced to pawn items in their house just like the wife from No One Writes to the Colonel. (26-27). Everything changed when he finally found success from One Hundred Years of Solitude. Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize and becoming famous, he always maintained an air of secrecy that translated into his…

Do you ever go and sit out in nature to marvel at its beauty? Many poets spend much of their time in nature because it provides solitude and tranquility. Two poets, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, wrote many poems about their time spent in nature. Emerson and Thoreau were close friends who shared many ideas and wrote about similar subjects, but their approaches to their experiences differed significantly. Emerson observed nature rather than lived in it. He experienced nature in…

Surviving is a hard task. Movies, stories, T.V. series, and comics often show protagonists, whether they be a girl or a boy of a heroic genre, thriving through their conflicts. If noticed, most of these main characters meet an organization, group, or random people and fight along them. Although, why not by themselves? The reason is that knowing the presence of other people has a realistically less difficulty than being a lone wolf. Firstly, there is the knowledge of the company of warm, alive…

a society where everything is controlled by a council of vocations and the concept "indivisuality" is non existent however, Equality 7-2521 does not follow under these rules and guidelines, after hiding in a tunnel he found, he spends his time in solitude -despite knowing this violates all the laws of his society- writing and even discovers electricity."Each night, for three hours, we are under the earth, alone...And yet there is no shame in us and no regret"[Anthem] In "Fahrenheit 451" the same…

Dickinson’s poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark and Frost's Acquainted with the Night are written on a seemingly similar topic, but the two author's poetic techniques convey a very different message. Dickinson’s message shifts with a hopeful message at the end while Frost goes full circle in his poem, with no hope for something better. Dickinson interprets darkness as an unknown future or a challenge. For example, the character in the poem enters into darkness where "not a Moon discloses a…

which she often writes about in her poems. Her poem numbered eighty-five and titled, “A Light Exists in Spring,” expresses Dickinson’s fascination with the nature and feeling of springtime. It is a letter that she had written to her father whole in solitude out in nature. The keyword of nature is prevalent in this poem, as Dickinson takes us on a journey through the powerful effect the light in spring has on her and her spiritual…

“The American dream is a term often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich and famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that”(Marco Rubio). The American dream is ever changing but there were periods in time where it was taken to an extreme, for example the Jazz ages where it was all about the materialistic lifestyle. Unlike the teaching of transcendentalism this time period encouraged the shallow meaningless lifestyle of the rich. This…

As a child grows up, parents and mentors constantly impose phrases like “The sky is the limit!” or “Don’t ever let someone tell you what you can or cannot do!”. Yet, as children age to become young adults and people of their own, they find themselves under constant scrutiny for not fulfilling society’s roles. Everyone is forced to fit within a one-size-fits-most mold, and anyone who refuses to follow society’s demands falls victim to the constant eye of judgement. However, authors like Rainier…