Loneliness College Essays Samples For Students

In a world obsessed with so much technology, it is fairly easy to get sucked into electronic devices, social media and virtual networking. This has not only affected our interpersonal relationships, but our relationship with the written word as well. There are many people that could not even tell you the last time that they picked up a book. It seems as though in our busyness and with our hectic lifestyles that we have lost a certain level of companionship and intimacy that we once had with one another and with the world. Literature and/or reading, has always had the ability to ...

The early 1900s was a turbulent era for America. As World War I raged in Europe, the Spanish flu ravaged nations and communities around the world, leading to the death of millions, and becoming one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of mankind. While America dealt with the aftermath of prohibition and the Great Depression, Russia and Ireland were engulfed in civil war, leading to major political shifts that reverberated throughout the Western hemisphere. It is no wonder, then, that some historians and scholars refer to this decade as “The Crazy Years” (Lamb 195). The sentiments of ...

I. Introduction

I will base my research paper on the isolation of the aged in the society. The paper will delve deep into the problems that face the elderly in the society today. The research was triggered by my service in an organization that exposed me to elderly people. After interacting with them, I was privileged to observe them and get a subjective view of the issues they undergo in their daily lives. I served in an organization known as ABCD North End, where I got to interact with the aged from Boston community.

My responsibility involved familiarizing them with computer skills ...

In the story “Miss Brill’ written by Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill, a middle-aged, lonely old woman but she does not wish to be thought of like old and lonely. She refuses to accept the fact of her situation so she pretends that she is an actress and removes herself from her situation. She passes the time going to the park and listening to the conversations of other people and listening to the band play. She observes and criticizes others but does not see her own self. Whenever she begins to see herself as old she brushes that thought away. She ...

Both Margaret Edson and Susan Glaspell can be considered feminist playwrights. Both women explored a number of themes that plague women in difficult situations. One of the fundamental themes of both plays is loneliness; although both authors develop this theme differently, the intersection of womanhood, loneliness and isolation is one of the most important thematic interactions within both plays.
Wit by Margaret Edson tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with cancer. This, in and of itself, can be quite an isolating experience; when the main character is diagnosed with cancer, she begins to quote Donne’s sonnets ...

Charles Baxter’s What Happens in Hell essay is effectively a progression of sadness and occurrence of an existential crisis for the narrator after being driven from the airport to his hotel, the discussions about hell, and finally the near death experience in a car accident. Alice Munro’s Train short story revolves around the relationship between Jackson, a man who jumped out of a moving train on the Ontario countryside after serving in World War II, and Belle, a woman around 15 years his senior, whom he meets in a small farm just off the tracks. In Train, the personal family life of Belle ...

Human’s mind is capable of feeling a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. Positive emotions are not always influenced by a mere absence of some unpleasant or tragic events, as happy moments can also take place because of events and people which are joyful and positive. On the other hand, negative emotions seem mostly to appear when there are no positive emotions to be make one happy or the pressure and stress have built up to the extent where any positive emotions are either taken for granted or unnoticed. Love, support, friendship, happy memories shared with the dearest ...

Introduction

Technological advancement has led to a variety of changes in the social life of humans in the world today. People have changed the way they talk, dress, food they eat, and how they communicate to one another. The means and speed of movement from one place to the other have also changed due to technological innovation that make it faster. Critical analysis of the effects of technology on the society and its values leaves us with the question has technology brought more good or harm to the world? Several authors who have specialised in sociology written some work trying to ...

Monster Madness

July 17
Theme of Isolation and Loneliness
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel’s character. Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does not belong to the community. The loneliness and isolation Grendel felt made him the monster he was, he desired to belong to the humans in the community but they isolated him. The exclusion from the rest of the community pushed him into becoming a hideous and cruel beast with a hard heart and thirst ...

In general terms, environmental press refers to the various demands that both social and physical environments make on an individual to adapt, respond or change. The intensity of these demands varies and so does their influence on the process of optimal aging. Studies have shown that environmental press and optimal aging are not mutually exclusive as there is a heavy dependency between the two. Since environmental change is an inevitable feature, old people must devise effective means and ways of dealing with environmental press issues if they are to achieve optimal aging. In this particular case study, Julio, a Brazilian who ...

The Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang is a sad play about desperation and the desire of two lonely people who are opposites. Hwang successfully manages to pull the interest of the audience in with pity and sympathy for his two lonely characters. The play is set in one lonely house located in a forest which is about two days from the nearest village. Both of the characters in this play are mysterious and complex. All through the play, the woman and the man are building a lovely understanding of one another. The symbolic meaning of their loneliness, change in their ...

Beowulf

Beowulf is an epic poem based on a great hero called Beowulf. He decides to help Hrothgar who was under attack by the monster Grendel. He defeats Grendel plus his mother and becomes king. After sometime, Beowulf dies after being badly wounded by a dragon which he defeated. Beowulf travelled in great places and distances while fighting against supernatural beings and demons.
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel (Streissguth 78). Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does ...

Social networks are intrinsically part of our lives and whether you like it or not this has made everything different in the way we look at ourselves. Some argue that it makes us even lonelier than we ever were although that is very debatable since the whole scope of Facebook is to bring people together. Facebook has also increased its reach as a forum where people can hold endless discussions but it is also a form of dating in the sense that it offers opportunities for those who are otherwise shy and regressed to explore the world of intimate personal relationships ...

Analysis of Viewpoints: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is an enduring, time-tested work of fiction that poses many questions that are fundamental to the common human experience. At the end of the novel, Frankenstein’s creation becomes cognizant of his place in the world, and claims that he will commit suicide. Some claim that the creation’s suicide is inevitable, but others claim that it is the creation’s choice. The potential suicide also brings up another question: which is the true monster, the creation or the man who created it and did not take responsibility for it? The class examined these ...

English 1100

Today more and more people are getting the feeling that they are living a draft, and someday later, their life will be transmitted onto a clean copy. Trying to fill in the void inside, they still get no satisfaction. It leads to various outcomes, some better, and some worse. What people eventually want is a piece of happiness – an abstract term that everybody interprets individually. Elizabeth Renzetti and Gabor Mate each describe the factors that contribute to and symptoms that arise from loneliness and substance abuse, respectively. Mate claims that some people find chemical substances give them what they ...

Anastasia Gvozdeva

Dr. Diane Watson
Kwantlen Politechnic University
26.06.2015

Introduction

Introductory statement: Many observers have come up with various viewpoints in light of the examination of the two ideas of addiction and loneliness.

Thesis statement: There are similarities and differences between the causes and symptoms of both addiction and loneliness.

Body

First Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence): In terms of similarity, some causes of addiction and loneliness relate to neurobiology.
Scientific evidence shows that addictive tendencies occur in the parts of human brains that govern some of the most fundamental and life-sustaining requirements and functions.

Brain develops new circuitry all through the lifespan of people

The causes of both compulsion and loneliness differ significantly in light of their neurological causes.
Second Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence): ...

Marche’s is Facebook making us lonely(2012)
If the truth were medication then it would be a hard pill to swallow whole and this fact is well elaborated by the blog that seeks not to relate modern loneliness with Facebook.
The writer of the blog seeks to distance modern loneliness and lack of interaction with new social technology such as Facebook that is widespread around the globe, cutting across all races, traditions, beliefs, ethnic backgrounds, age, social status, sex and political affiliation(Carlson15). Rapid technology changes have made communication easier especially with the fiber optics around. Yet ...

Introduction

The loneliness test is important for social workers to know if individuals who belong in a certain group are more likely to be lonely. The test asks five questions about the individual, then twenty hypothetical statement regarding feelings. The individual writes a number (from 1 to 4) next to the corresponding statement, depending on their feelings. 1 for feeling totally unconnected and 4 for relating to the statement. The twenty questions are scored from twenty to eighty. Loneliness is very subjective, it has been described in theology, literature and in philosophy (Wittenberg & Reis, 1986). However, since feelings are dynamic, there ...

An African-American writer, Nikki Giovanni, wrote the poem under consideration. She was born on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is important to note that she has won numerous awards for her work as a poet, writer, educator and activist. People refer to her as the new voice of African Americans (Nikki Giovanni). This particular poem represents a remarkable piece of writing due to several reasons: it clearly has no rhyme, it is quite long and it has an unusual structure. Visually, one perceives the lines of the poem as steps of some stairs. In terms of the ...

For many, loneliness is simply a lack of company. This definition, in itself, is extremely accurate, if a little obvious. For others, loneliness can mean having a great group of friends and an active, busy social life but then returning home to an empty home, sleeping alone in a bed, and having nobody to share thoughts, feelings and opinions with. However, what is arguably the worst form of loneliness is the person who has the great friends, has the loving partner but still feels entirely alone in the world. When a person feels as though they are simply ‘fitting in’ rather than being able ...

The stories presented by Lawson are characterized by realistic illustrations of limited desires and needs of common domestic life and many hardships. Isolation is a very prolific theme in this the Drover’s Wife because the whole story explores the issues of loneliness, separation from mates and hard work by the women characters in the absence of their husbands. The woman is used to being left alone and it even states that she was once left alone for eighteen months. As a young lady, she desires to live like a princess and have a good life, and that is ...

The Psychodynamic Perspective

The primary focus of this approach in the treatment of patients is to reveal the subconscious and unconscious elements of the client’s or patient’s psych in an effort to treat the patient. The approach heavily relies on the interrelationship between the patient and the therapist. The approach involves several steps in a continuum where the peripheries are the interpretive pole and the supportive pole. From the onset, the therapist takes the patient through seven stages namely; Interpretation, Confrontation, Clarification, Encouragement to elaborate, Empathetic validation, Advice and Praise and finally to Affirmation that is anchored of the supportive pole.
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Significance of the play

The play captures the themes of loneliness and love, in a way that makes the reader, or the audience, awe at the depth of creativity of David Henry Hwang. The structure of the play targets the general audience, as it brings out the kind of feelings that someone keeps in the face of rejection and failure to fit in society. Two characters, a man and a woman in middle age, tell their versions of loneliness and their lack of human company. The man confides to the woman that he had to sleep in a waterfall in the previous night ...

The early fiction of Capote usually descends into a subconscious and explores a world of blurred realities and uncertainty whose inhabitants are trapped in unbearable isolation. The short story “Miriam” was first published in 1945 and depicts the psychological deterioration of the protagonist, Mrs. Miller. The sense of captivity and fear overshadow this short story and results from the individual’s inability to respond and accept the reality. Mrs. Miller is given an opportunity to accept someone disturbing and strange and push back the frontier of darkness in the soul and the surrounding world. More essentially, it means that ...

Human is a social creature, with one of our basic needs being in communication. The story tells us how essential the need is and how total loneliness leads to the trance of anxiety, fear and delusion. The narrative is supported by a number of symbols, monologues and the overall atmosphere of mystical desolation. For the main character it seems that people have just been here: he finds a lit cigarette, a tap turned on, etc. Running around the solitary island of his consciousness, he feels as if the last man on Earth. Thus, the story sends a message of ...

Coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street composed by Sandra Cisneros represents a mosaic of various events that shaped life of Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero. Due to the writing style and vignette form this novel presents reader with vivid but at the same time incomplete pieces of memories that are aimed at conveying particular emotion rather than facts. It should be mentioned that inspiration for writing this novel was Cisneros`s life along with stories from people she knew or met. With this in mind one may observe mixture of semi-real and semi-fictional stories that reveal reality of ...

In the short Story “Wakefield,”

Very often Hawthorne uses his work to show some of his own characteristic; as he did in “Wakefield” It is necessary for everyone to have alone time, or to escape from the flurried bee-line of the busy world, however, no one needs twenty years aloneness or escapism.

Everyone needs time alone, unfortunately, we do not always have that privilege. The word loneliness is often used to mean solitude. Maybe Hawthorne means solitude, loneliness is a negative connotation and people do not really need loneliness in their lives they need solicitude. Solitude is a peaceful time; one thinks better and gain new ...

Austrian writer Franz Kafka came in the German-language literature in the 20th century and became one of the most famous writers of his age, one of the most recognized literary innovators. Like all his generation, which has entered into the literature on the eve of the First World War and the subsequent revolutionary upheavals in Russia and Germany, Franz Kafka was living with the constant feeling of deep hostility of soulless, mechanical and bureaucratized world to man, to human nature. All of Franz Kafka's prose can be called a great essay about fear, about the state of the lonely ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Midlife, or the age between 35 and 55, can be a complicated time for a woman. As a female enters these years, sometimes it can be difficult to navigate the waters because the things that once made her happy are no longer available, or as satisfying. This can be confusing. Other things that she never enjoyed before may be cast in a new light, and be even more enjoyable than the female ever thought possible. There may be complicated feelings about life satisfaction, which can lead to new discoveries or depression. The female may attempt sexual exploration as her body continues to mature, ...

In Short-Story Characters

Loneliness is a human condition that people almost universally wrestle with, at least during some point in their lives, which is why it is such a compelling subject for writers to depict with their characters. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “lonely” is defined as “being without company, cut off from others, not frequented by human beings, sad from being alone, and producing a feeling of bleakness or desolation” (n.d.). A person may feel lonely when all his friends are going away to college but he is still in his hometown working at the same job he has had through high school, when ...

Alcoholism has been defined by the online dictionary as, “an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the compulsive behaviour that results from alcoholic dependency.” Over time we see more and more people taking to the bottle but unfortunately, not so many get freed from alcoholism. This essay examines a documentary that looks at the plight of the elderly alcoholic and what can be done for them.

Working Title – The Elderly Alcoholic

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Working Hypothesis
The aim of this documentary is to show the correlation of life events and alcoholism in the elderly. Almost everyone ...

Tennyson, “The Eagle”. Discussion Question: How is the solitary eagle’s strength emphasized in the first stanza? Does the reader “join” the eagle in the second stanza? How or how not?
The reader joins the eagle in his dive in the second stanza through the metaphorical comparison with a thunderbolt. Captivated by the bird’s masterful and exact description in the first part of the poem, the reader has no choice but to follow the eagle’s majestic fall towards the water. This is also achieved by the personification of the predator, as the author uses pronouns “he”, and “ ...

What is a Friend? A Friend is a person who is willing to take you the way you are (Ashton). The word ‘friend’ traces back to England in the early 12th century and continues to be utilized throughout the world today. Though, it was originated from German where it is called as “Freund.” Having too many friends can be stressful and dramatic at times, but they can also help resolve personal issues, assist in loneliness, and help you in your overall emotional and physical well-being.
Friends are those people in your life that you can rely on when a ...

After reading Anne Waldman’s Gossamurmur, I was inspired to write a literary piece that would be synonymous with hers in terms of style. I therefore had to engage in an extensive rhetorical analysis so to come with an exemplary piece that would be characteristic of well-defined rhetorical choices in regards to the language, the audience and the genre of the piece. After the comprehensive rhetorical choices analysis, I decided to construct a poem whose focus was on two aspects of human life that are often considered to be correlated. These are loneliness and love. People who do have partners of ...

In the era of digital world, social networks such as Facebook play an important role in the lives of every individual, regardless of its age, ethnical origin or place of residence. People constantly click, share, like of comment everywhere you look: on the street, in the bus, on the plane. However, the ability and skill to communicate with the person standing next to you has slowly vanished. If one needs an advice about something which a person standing or sitting beside him would probably know, he would rather ask a Facebook friend. Facebook is just another channel of communication and people ...

Miss Brill is a short tale written between 188-1923 by Katherine Mansfield. The story was first published in 1920 and reprinted in the Garden Party and Other Stories. It is a story about a lonely English teacher living alone in a French town next to the Public Gardens. The novel tells us about how she spends her time waking and sitting in the on every Sunday afternoon. As the story begins, Mansfield narrates how Miss Brill chooses to wear her fur, and while in the park, she notices that it is full compared to the last Sunday. When she is joined by a young ...

Introduction

Mary Shelley, born Wollstonecraft, was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Her early childhood was fraught with one sad event after the other and could therefore account for her starting an affair at the age of sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley. Although married at the time Shelley gave Mary all of his attention and they eventually ran away together. No consideration for anyone else here. In her life Mary faced a lot of loneliness and alienation, her mother died when she was born, her half-sister committed suicide and she lost three of ...

Since the rise of computers, robots and robotics have captured the imagination of mankind. Science fiction has made many observations regarding robots and potential future artificial intelligence; utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to examine fundamental questions of humanity and philosophy has been a method that is used by a variety of different science fiction writers. By creating a world in which artificial intelligence can be compared and contrasted to human intelligence, writers and philosophers can answer questions about the nature of humanity, ethics, and the future of the human race as a whole. In a world where robots are used seven days a week, ...

Being strange to a place is one of the most confusing moments of one’s life. It is characterized with massive loneliness since there are no friends or relatives. One is always in fear of the kind of people he or she talks to since it is impossible to determine one’s character immediately people meet. Loneliness becomes more when one realizes that he or she is so far from home. When it hits the mind one is not going back home any time soon the problem of loneliness becomes worst. This is because, the individual has to interact with ...

Elvis Presley the king of Rock N Roll was born in 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi. His first interaction with the music happened at the local church where he sang along with his family (Wallace, p.101). Elvis was an only child. He comes from a poor family, that did not stop him from reaching a peak in his career and becoming an internationally acclaimed artist of all times, but before that he had to go a long way from a truck driver to a talented singer. Indeed, he used to think to become a truck driver that was eventually replaced by ...

Today, the internet is a prime avenue among the youths as well as adults for social interactions. Through internet tools and applications such as chat rooms, email, newsgroups, instant messaging as well as other means, individuals share all sorts of information such as their interests with others, aspects pertaining to their daily lives and keep in touch with their friends and family members. In essence, today, the primary use of mobile phones and personal computers is social interaction. In the process, online social interaction has also brought about people seeking to form relationships with others whom they have met ...

Literature is the reflection of the contemporary society. Early 20th century was generally known as the modernist era in art and literature. The contemporary society was majorly affected by the fatality of World War I and World War II. During the period, the whole generation had become very pessimistic about everything. They were trying to find the meaning of life and their existence due to the political situations and horrified incidents such as holocaust, concentration camps, and the drop of nuclear bombs on Japan. The feeling of nothingness, futility is very strong in contemporary English literature. The literature of ...

Raymond Carver is an American poet and short story writer famous for his realistic style. This outstanding writer is well-known for the short story collections, one of which is called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Why Don’t You Dance? belongs to this collection and is considered to be one of the most outstanding and unusual short stories created by the writer because of its non-traditional structure and plot. In Why Don’t You Dance? Carver uses such literary devices as symbolism, binary opposition, sad and depressed tone in order to convey the themes of ...

3 pro: perfect solutions for busy parents (refutation: Some children feel strong attachment with their parents may become frustrated)
Lots of parents choose to send their children to boarding schools for study. Students could take part in the activities and improve their skills or teachers can help students who confuse about what they can capable do. In addition, students who study in boarding school they will get used to well-ordered way in life, and foster independence. Boarding school it’s a best choice for busy parents, children can have healthy meal there. However, for the children who have strongly ...

The black and white photographs selected for evaluation in the essay is from the Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th street Suite 1406, New York and Yosso Milo Gallery, 45th Tenth Avenue, New York. The photographers are Willis Hartshorn Howard and Ken Schles.
The objective of the paper is to evaluate how successful is black and white photography in making an impact on the audience, despite the lack of colors. There are some excellent examples of black-and-white photography regarding composition, lighting, and perspective.

Sleeping Passengers in the Terminal Waiting Room, 1947

The work is a part of an exhibition - A Democracy of Imagery, which is a ...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (McNeese, 2006, p.105)
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the main representatives of the 20th century art, and the co-founder along with Georges Braque of Cubism. With significant contribution to the formation and development of modern and contemporary art, Picasso is one of the most prominent artists of the previous century, an artistic mastermind who managed to ...

1.0 Introduction of a Developmental Issue
Hong Kong primary and secondary school students are under constant academic pressure since they have no spare time to relax leading to psychological stress. In fact, it is difficult to change the education system. Since the beginning of the school year to the present day, the number of Hong Kong students who committed suicide rose to the highest levels. According to most of the students, school workload is just a fuse with “no joy, no hope, and no help.”
There is a case that happened in a middle school in Hong Kong. The ...

Nutrition and Fluids

Ms. Fisher needs to be educated on the importance of eating proper meals and the outcomes that may present themselves if she does not stick to a sound diet plan. She needs also be advised about controlling her intake of sodium which has got a direct effect on her body fluid levels. Her diet assessment should also provide directions on the importance of supplementing her meals with fresh fruits and vegetables. The rationale for eating proper meals and not sticking to soups only is aimed at preventing cases of weight loss cases. Her skin losing turgidity translates to her ...

Part 1: Who are you?

Who am I?
I am female of Hispanic ethno-cultural origin and my passion is in working with the elderly. I am currently taking up Psychology as part of the required course modules in the degree course that I am pursuing. I still live with my elderly parents and I have an older sister who I dearly love. I am very passionate and driven in my work with the elderly. I loved working with those diagnosed with Dementia and Alzheimer’s. I would love to be an instrumental contributor to uplifting their lives in whatever means I can: through a ...

First year university students often claim that good academic skills will lead them to academic success. However, research suggests that social skills and personal attributes have a significant influence on how well students cope with the challenges of transition to university.

This essay examines the process of transition of a young person to a new university environment. In this essay it is argued that an excellent academic performance is not the only key and is not the most important factor for the achievement of academic success. Some people say that personal attributes, social skills and good-fellowship are even more effective than ...

Most people would be content if they were granted immortality, lived on an island paradise, with a beautiful goddess, drinking wine and listening to soothing music. However, as a hero, Odysseus finds this idyllic and complacent life impossible and abysmal. Odysseus plays a central role in Homer’s epic cycle, appearing in the Iliad and as the main protagonist in the Odyssey. After successfully waging the war on Troy, Odysseus struggles to find his way home, overcomes various obstacles, resists temptations, and eventually returns home. The ways in which his character and personality changes as he encounters and handles unknown challenges highlights ...

Martin Scorsese filmed Taxi Driver in 1976. It became a cult movie. The question that comes to mind while watching this film is the purpose of life in a big city. We have to ask ourselves what does a person have to do in a civilize urban society in order to be fulfilled. In this movie there is a strong sense of loneliness which the main character, Travis, constantly feels. The audience wonders how the whole story is bound to end. There are two possible outcomes: a happy ending and a tragedy.
Travis rides around at night because he suffers from insomnia. He is 26 years ...

Soledad is often painted as a novel that was written in the vein of the great magical realist writers: Angie Cruz is thrown in with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Lara Esquivel. While these are prestigious names to be connected with, this description of Soledad as a work of pure magical realism weakens the underlying themes of the book rather than strengthening them: Soledad is the picture of a life-- of a way of life-- in New York City. The titular character, Soledad, wrestles with her feelings of love for her home and the people who fill it and the conflicting desire to escape ...

The issues of gender discrimination are witnessed across different cultures, and especially those that are still coming to age. The gender issues represent some of the feminist issues that emanate from the discrimination of women. Such issues include the hindrance of women from exploring the world, discrimination on expression of their sexualities and barring women from social interactions. Many authors talk about these feminist issues with the use of literary devices that tend to showcase their magnitude. The confab below purposes at emphasizing how different authors have used the literary device of metaphors in elucidating the issues of gender ...

In George Eliot’s “Silas Marner” we first see Silas Marner arriving in Raveloe and the villagers’ reaction to a stranger and his silent reaction to their treatment of him. Silas did not invite anyone into his cottage neither did he set foot into the village. He remembers well the way he was treated in his old town of Lantern Yard, so he tries to keep as far as possible from people. Silas was lonely, and he drowned his loneliness in his work. He was a weaver, and the gold pennies he received for his work was his companion and sole ...

Choices have consequences and the choices that people make when they are young in a way make a huge impact on them later on in life. This essay will explore such a person, a woman who is viewed by the narrator as one who let pass by the things in life that make meaning. She took for granted life, friends and her own children but came to terms with this fact when it was too late. In the poem Pathedy of Manners by Ellen Kay, we meet a woman, who has had good times in life yet ends up lonely. The reader gets to ...

Zijiao (2291) says that A Rose for Emily is among William Faulkner’s famous short stories. The story illustrates the happening in Jefferson, Mississippi where there is a woman involved in a tragedy. Faulkner evokes dark images of murder, gloom, and terror in the story of Emily (William and Commins 1). The story has old process in deterioration, a murder victim, corpse, and necrophilia. Emily is a loner who kills Homer and embraces the victim without the knowledge of the community. The community has admiration towards Emily without the realization that the woman has housed a rotting corpse for many years. Emily manages to ...

This is an analysis of ‘The Glass Menagerie’. ‘The Glass Menagerie’ is a theatrical play which has been considered among the borders of the literary community as a play carrying lots of autobiographical elements of the author. This play which opened the path to his author Tennessee Williams for recognition and admiration won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
This is an analysis of the play’s main thematic core which is the loneliness of people and the way it is experienced by the members of a family. The portrait presented here is the portrait of a family whose world is so fragile ...

When it comes to the theme of acceptance, two pieces of literature, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, and Cathedral by Raymond Carver come to mind. One is set up in the Post-Civil-War-Southern-Town of the United States, while the other takes place more in a contemporary setting. In A Rose for Emily, it opens up with the death of an elderly woman that comes from a pre-Civil War family of wealthy aristocrats and in Cathedral, it opens up with the narrator telling the reader in a relaxed tone that a blind friend of his wife’s has decided to come pay them a ...

English Literature

Introduction
Literary interpretation is an important tool of analyzing any genres and characteristics, and the sterling domains of literary analysis and presentation are short story and novel. So, it is in this context, a short story “The secret sharer” written by Joseph Conrad - deals with the challenges of maintaining secrecy in deep sea, a ship, its new captain, and an interesting experience of aloofness aboard the ship. All these form the crux of the story that mirrors the human touch with which a new captain shares the secrecy, and save a life of person. On the other hand, the novel "Wide ...