Solitude

1st William Golding - Lord of the Flies 1954 William was born in Cornwall in 1911 and died in 1993. The book "Lord of the Flies" is his most famous work, the book was also the start of his career as a writer. He was awarded the 1980 Booker Prize and in 1983 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. I have already seen the film version of "Lord of the Flies" and I like strong purpose and the underlying message of the fable. To see how ordinary children become rabid wild teenagers, how…

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children significantly shaped the course of Indian writing in English. This great work of art gave Rushdie a prominent position in the literary canon. He got a definite place in the readers‟ heart. Midnight's Children is a typical example of a postcolonial novel that integrates the elements of magic realism into it. The author‟s intentional use of magic realism helps in bringing out the surreal and unreal dimensions of the Indian subcontinent and thereby making it a…

In his work One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has perfected magical realism in such a way that it even makes the peculiar events that take place in Macondo seem normal. In the case of magical realism, the reader is subjective to a world in which anything is plausible. This differs from a fairytale setting where everything tends to be over the top and dramatic because the writer will subtly integrate the oddness of the subject into the lives of the character making it appears…

Buendia family tendency to preferred solitude. All the Buendia family experiences solitude in some point of their life, to some members solitude brought peace and to other member solitude offered contentment. Most of the Buendia family members had been drawn into solitude or preferred to be in solitude, but according to Ursula all the children that were born into the family that were given the first name of Aureliano had the predisposition to preferred solitude in some point of their life’s.…

There is both a physical as well as an emotional solitude within the Buendia family. They have no control over being alone, yet, it always seems as the intent to do so is habitual. Each member of the Buendia family possess qualities and characteristic that segregate them from one another. Each one their…

I do agree with Thoreau’s argument, that the comfort of solitude is something that one can develop within themselves, and can prevent loneliness rather than prevent it, due to it encouraging one to become more independent and free-thinking. “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude”, by this Thoreau means that the independence he has found through solitude has helped him to become more independent, therefore he does not feel the need to interact with others to gain new…

Within “Frost at Midnight,” Samuel Coleridge validates the importance of self-reflection through solitude. Coleridge creates a scenic image of the world around the speaker during the time of his solitude. During his time alone, the speaker reflects about his childhood and the aspiration he has for the infant child sleeping in the cottage. The importance of solitude demonstrated in “Frost at Midnight” by the feelings the speaker has, the time intervals from present to past, and the speaker’s…

metaphors, symbolism, and alliterations help evoke the overarching themes of freedom and solitude, convention versus individuality, and the theme of reflection. To begin with, in this excerpt the theme of freedom and solitude is omnipresent. The symbol of the sea represents solitude for Edna. It is personified as “seductive” ( l. 20) and invites “ the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude” ( l. 21-22). Edna is drawn to…

Emerson writes “These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world” because he is trying to explain how society corrupts an individual in comparison to solitude and nonconformity (551). Freedom in Emerson’s writings comes from the solitude and nonconformity he explains. Solitude provides freedom because an individual is away from everyone, laws, conflicts and work. Having solitude in life creates the ability to practice what you please…

What is solitude? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines solitude as the quality of being alone or remote from society. Henry David Thoreau’s “Solitude” from Walden revolves around the concept of solitude, including the misconceptions about it. Thoreau uses solitude as a positive way to promote the company of nature, rather than the company of other humans. However, he believes that an individual can only choose from the two, since being surrounded by one more than the other will not have the…