Solitude

Emily Dickinson is named as one of our nation’s greatest poets despite only having a handful of her poems published in her lifetime. Dickinson wrote about human understanding as being infinite in many of her poems. Emily Dickinson’s poems, There is a Solitude of Space,…

gothic novel is full of despair, creativity, and displays many repetitive topics, such as the light of knowledge, and the role of women. However, one overwhelming theme in the novel consists of isolation and solitude. Frankenstein and his unnamed creature both endure destitution involving solitude, mostly due to the lack of presence of others, and this feeling impacted the irrational actions that both undertook. While Victor Frankenstein went to pursue his education in anatomy, he…

Title: “Solitude” Author: Henry David Thoreau Argument: One should not feel lonely because life has so much to offer. The word, solitude usually has a negative connotation. Being lonely may bring up sad and heartbreaking emotions. People long to have company around them, someone to go eat dinner with and have fun. Once isolated from society people believe that one can’t be happy. In a story titled, “From Solitude” written by Henry David Thoreau, he argues that one should not feel lonely…

Fantastic Fates and Where to Find Them In writing One Hundred Year of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez fuses political commentary, magic realism, and reflections on humanity through his creation of the fictional town Macondo. Despite killer ants, gorgeous women ascending to the heavens, and soothsayers, Márquez claims that “there’s not a single line in all [his] work that does not have a basis in reality” (Hamilton 1). If taken literally, Márquez may be referring to the inspiration overbearing…

Solitude “It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society” (Krishnamuri). In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife show a sign of loneliness. Cooks is the loneliest, because he lives by himself, the guys never invite him to play cards in the other rooms. He gets treated like this because he’s black. The time that Lennie walked in and Crooks was angry at him was because nobody…

that negate the other. However, in order to experience one, the other must also be understood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez understands the necessity of knowing both phenomena, and represents the connection between the two within his novel 100 Years of Solitude. Through the portrayal of the married couple Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia, Marquez displays how the concepts of chaos and order are unified and interact with each other. Despite all the tragedies that occur within the novel, Ursula does…

I began writing An Interview with a Trout in March, right after we finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. With all of the texts involved in the second half of the Haruki Murakami class, one theme that reverberated in my head was how family can come to represent latent memory and one’s cyclical history. These stories made me think about my own family history and the potential stories that could hold a prophecy on my own life. Both sides of my family had no ties to the United States…

One Hundred Years of Solitude Through a Historical Lens Without a doubt Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, with its elaborate plot involving alchemy, raining flowers, and chocolate levitation, exemplifies a true work of fiction. But, when peering beyond the surface level of an enjoyable story, the tale embodies the history of Latin America, spanning from Spanish conquest to regional turmoil and Western colonialism. Through a historical critical lens, Garcia…

drawn. The main characters in stories also represent their countries in post-colonial and civil war ages. The Buendia family in 100 Years of Solitude represents different parts of Columbia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendia family are solitary in some way, which is a representation of the solitude of Latin America. Their solitude is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . . unable to relate to the world outside on terms other than those of a…

massive, historical event. This raises questions, though. How do we reconcile the individual with mass atrocity? How can we make the private individual fit within the cold, public expanse of history? Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow consider the relationship between individual identity and collective, historical tragedy,…