On the other hand, there is Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, which begins with secondary narrator Mr. Lockwood’s arrival at his temporary home where he meets his “solitary neighbor that [he] shall be troubled with”, Heathcliff in “a perfect misanthropists heaven”. Heathcliff acts harshly and coldly towards Lockwood, piquing Lockwood’s curiosity of Heathcliff’s past and pushes him to question primary narrator, Nelly Dean. From here, the story begins in the form of a flashback, which accentuates the tragic events that occur during Heathcliff’s life, all continually moving towards present day. Many things play a role in
Night: Passage Analysis Troubling thoughts consumed young Elie because he saw the ways in which father-son relationships are torn asunder by the camps. He watches as sons deny—or at least consider denying—care to their fathers, putting their own interests before their loved ones. Elie struggles with the same conflict when his father becomes ill, and when his father finally dies, Elie is profoundly sad though also proud that he never wholly compromised his own beliefs about family. The reason that Elie finds the deterioration of father-son relationships so painful is that the maintenance of this relationship seems to be the last barrier between a world that is semi-normal and one that has completely been turned upside down. Elie must continue
English writing The theme of loneliness is best portrayed through characters that had a childhood full of dreams and expectations to live a better life. Steinbeck presents loneliness during the great depression by marginalizing his characters by gender, age and ethnicity. These characters were considered to be at the bottom of ranch hierarchy because they were useless during the 1930’s. The character of Candy is portrayed as lonely by Steinbeck as he is marginalized by age. Candy is believed to be useless as he has lost his hand and is old.
As an alternative to challenges in dysfunctional relationships, individuals may seek escape, leading to an active step towards transition. In the Simple Gift, Billy’s distant relationship with his father and town he is living in forces him to seek escape. Herrick represents this dissatisfaction with family and community using descriptions of the weather to create a negative and depressed atmosphere, both physical and mental, of “Nowheresville”, and “The wind howls and the rain sheets in”. This egregious weather metaphorically represents Billy’s emotions and the challenges he is constantly facing in this environment. As Billy begins living in Bendarat, he leaves behind his old challenges such as his dysfunctional family in exchange for new challenges such as homelessness and hunger.
Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes. Momaday uses words and phrases such as "loneliness is an aspect of the land," "all things in the plain are isolate," "to look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion," "imagination comes to life," and "creation was begun." Momaday's use of words show the sacredness of the land. They also signify that the land is of important value to him on a spiritual level. On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving."
A man who went to see his farther during a big winter storm and left his wife behind at the house and told Steven, the neighbor John liked the most, to help Ann on the farm work; also Steven was told to spend time with Ann by himself. Finally John was found lying on the ground with covered snow and realized he was dead already. Ann was a self, frustrated and with a weak personality. Also a wife of John who always felt loneliness once John had left her at the house during the coldest winter time. A women who had betrayed her husband because of Steven’s visiting, but felt guilty to John and realized that John was not a man she had been thinking of therefore, she regret started to regret herself.
But unfortunately, due to the erroneous decisions he had and by letting other people like Zeena, Hales, Mattie, the society, the climate or poverty make decisions for him, he ended up in an ironic life and lives with the consequences for the rest of his life. This teaches us that we should be able to vindicate our own decision without being dictated by others and be prepared for its consequences either it’s all good or all bad. Ethan’s home was defines as "one of those lonely New England farmhouses that make the landscape lonelier." (Wharton E. 10) Ethan gave up his studies so he can take care of his parents who are debilitating with illness and must settle for farming. Ethan "seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him
He feels isolated and bitter. He is the victim of oppressive violence and prejudice on the ranch. When he first meets Lennie, there is an immediate rejection of friendship mainly due to the anguish of his loneliness. · ‘Well, I got a right to have a light. You go on get outa my room.
But, the husband has accepted his son’s death & now “sees” the mound as a part of the grave yard “where his people are.” *The husband realises that what he has concealed, she cannot forget. *We tend to explore the LOSS but not the GRIEF | *”I’ll follow you & bring you back by force.” | Signifies the complete & utter breakdown of communication in the relationship & their inability to sympathise with each other & feel each other’s pain. |
We explore how retelling the stories bring up the pain from war experience, and it lets the soldiers work through it after the war had ended. The protagonist is unable to tell his war experiences and therefore drives silently around; this lack of audience prevents him from arriving at a similar understanding. Norman Bower is finding himself at a loss, he comes home to nothing, his friends are all dead, his girlfriend is married and he has nobody to share his wartime stories with. The structural framework that the narrator is represented in is; that his life goes in circles, he is constantly thinking about the traumatizing experiences the