Essays Tagged: "isolation"

Great Expectations

is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation, manipulation, the tragic hero, and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the boo ... ers of Estella, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Pip.The character of Estella represents the symbols of isolation and manipulation. By acting as an adult when she was still young, she separated herself fr ...

(3 pages) 121 0 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Individualism and Belonnging to the Family in Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb

r undergoes a transformation between individualism and belonging to his family. Individualism means isolation, while family means belonging. Searching for Caleb shows how rules can govern the family. ... Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb are novels dealing with individualism, isolation, family, and conformity. Furthermore, two characters inBreathing Lessons are isolated and ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

great expectations

importance concerning its structure, I have selected 'Love' in the context of human relationships, 'Isolation' and finally 'Redemption'. The loneliness isolation brings can only be redeemed by the lov ... own diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their maker.'In isolation the greatest sin we commit against ourselves and others, is to shun human companionship as ...

(4 pages) 100 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Elsa Kumachuck in the Gabrielle Roy book Windflower

Gabrielle Roy, the author of Windflower, shows us through her main character, Elsa Kumachuck, that isolation can have unfortunate effects on an individual and the people around them. We, as readers, ... ter on though, we realize that it's the influence of other people in her life and the experience of isolation later on that lead her to make the decisions that she does.Elsa Kumachuck was at one time ...

(2 pages) 51 2 2.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Scarlet Letter"

Chapter II (pg. 59, 60, 64)The Unavoidable TruthThe isolation and courage that Hester Pryne felt when she walked to the scaffold to face reality brought ... ng the two results of her adultery; the scarlet letter and her child, Pearl. In order to escape her isolation, Hester goes into her inner soul and into the past. In Hester's 'dusky mirror' of imaginat ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Apprehensive Apparition - hallucination

nd immediate as perception but not mistaken as such. They are more likely to be seen in response to isolation or an intense emotional need: for example, shipwrecked sailors may visualize boats coming ...

(2 pages) 38 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Film term paper. About apocalypse Now

a savage evil side that remainsrepressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times ofisolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another.History is loaded with exampl ... a savage evil side that remainsrepressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times ofisolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another.History is loaded with exampl ...

(14 pages) 253 0 3.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Short Story asessment, The Good Corn & Turned

farmer's wife, she was uneducated and had notknown any other lifestyle besides her country one, her isolation caused her to becomedependant on her husband and besides him Elsie was her only companion. ... seemed to be more loving and passionate even though itwas rarely shown, this maybe because of their isolation from the rest of society and that theironly company was each other.In Turned Mr. Marroner ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

the gothic setting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

eliness and misery. The setting can bring aboutthese feelings of short-lived happiness, loneliness, isolation, and despair.Shelly's writing shows how the varied and dramatic settings ofFrankenstein ca ... mory. And that is what is felt throughoutthe novel-the dreariness of it all along with the desolate isolation. Yetthere were still glimpses of happiness in Shelly's "vivid pictures of thegrand scenes ...

(3 pages) 160 0 3.4 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Cosmic irony in "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane.

man. In 'The Open Boat,' Crane's theme, cosmic irony, is illustrated through the use ofsymbols for isolation, insignificance, and indifference. Three specific examples of cosmic irony symbolism used ... like the universe would still go on without mankind.The third form of symbolism in cosmic irony is isolation. Isolation is being held in captivity or lack of contact withthe world or universe. The li ...

(2 pages) 160 0 3.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Isolation and Emily Grierson: A Deadly Combination

r, one of the most famed writers of our times, explores in his writing the themes of alienation and isolation. He interweaves these themes with his female characters. In A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily G ... emale characters. In A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson is a woman who is alienated and lives in isolation from the people in her town. The theme of isolation is the focal point of the story, since ...

(3 pages) 121 0 4.2 Dec/1993

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Romantic sonnets. Mentiones Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth

ic writing dealt with love and the struggles endured due to love, there was also emphasis placed on isolation, as seen in the emotions of Smith's speaker and also in the setting on the work. Nature, i ...

(4 pages) 71 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Oran -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Character analysis - Camus "The Plague"

Oran, peaceful and unprepared, is overcome by Bubonic plague. Separation, isolation and indigence become the common lot of distinct characters whose actions, thoughts and fee ... I don't believe it was so much because of the plague nor to return to his 'wife,' but to escape the isolation of quarantine. His conscience and morals finally surface and he voluntarily remains to ass ...

(6 pages) 111 0 4.6 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Book report on "Dune" by

equently in the book. The title and the setting of the book are used to establish the bleakness and isolation of the planet Arrakis. The plot and resolution bring together the multiple factions includ ...

(2 pages) 56 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Lord of the Flies (by Golding) is a picture of our society today." Discusses the statement and show how this statement applies.

The Lord of the Flies is about a mini-society of boys formed by chance. Theirisolation from adults forced reality upon them and so they had to think for themselvesand work toget ...

(4 pages) 75 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

A comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe. For both madness exists in the world

ms. Several themes are common to both: the madness that exists in the world, the paranoia caused by isolation which guides people's actions, the conflict between appearance and reality along with the ... his fears and his guilt is through violence. This paranoia and madness is caused by the characters' isolation. Roderick lives alone with his sister in a gloomy house. Norman is in complete seclusion i ...

(5 pages) 81 1 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Psychiatric Report, The Stone Boy

fe alone withdrawn from his family and friends. He has lived these past 12 years in frustration and isolation, unable to be confident, unable to express feelings. This was shown when he came in to my ...

(5 pages) 30 0 4.3 Jan/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, a direct assault of Victorian morality.

tte Bronte portrays one woman's desperate struggle to attain heridentity in the mist of temptation, isolation, and impossible odds. Although she processesa strong soul she must fight not only the forc ...

(4 pages) 93 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Essay on "The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne

ampered by the scarlet letter, her mind is freed by it, that an intellectual passion rises from her isolation and suffering. Finally, it defines her identity, for the letter makes Hester the woman tha ...

(5 pages) 147 1 4.4 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Domestic Violence

lence and goes through a series of behaviors, including intimidation, threats, psychological abuse, isolation, etc. to control the other person. The violence in the relationship may not happen often b ...

(2 pages) 137 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community