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    Santiago's Loneliness

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    is an example of this. However‚ despite these facts‚ many people continue to mistreat and greatly undermine them. In The Old Man and the Sea‚ a novel by Ernest Hemingway‚ an old fisherman communicates with the sea life around him to appease his loneliness while attempting to reel in an impossibly large Marlin. Hemingway personifies the sea and sea life to reveal Santiago’s kind and respectful character. Throughout his journey‚

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    Loneliness In Siddhartha

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    enough to clean up his look and do as she wished. He was able to become intoxicated with he lust he felt for her to forget his loneliness. Everything was short lived. He took a job with a business man who was very passionate about his work. This remained Siddhartha of how he had never experiences the joy of doing something or for that matter any joy of being alive. “For a long Siddhartha had lived a the life of the world without belonging to it.” (Page 78) he left running from what he was running from

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    Mallard's Loneliness

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    Alfred Prufrock is lonely. There is a difference between being lonely and alone‚ Mallard is a good examples of being alone because even though her husband “died” she still had a family. Unlike Mallard‚ J. Alfred Prufrock is an example of loneliness because it states in the poem how he stands in a room full of people‚ nobody is talking to him and no one even recognizes him. In the poem‚ Alfred Prufrock doesn’t want to be lonely anymore and instead be recognized. The author puts in repetition

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    Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the unfortunate reality of loneliness consumes the lives of the majority of the characters. The time period portrayed in this novel‚ the 1920’s‚ had brought about several changes for people. It was highly common for large groups of people to join together for parties with endless drinking‚ dancing and celebrating. However‚ when the night was over and the festivities finished‚ most people were forced right back into their regular everyday lives feeling

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    Dealing with Loneliness

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    I never had many friends. I was always the loner kid‚ sitting in the corner‚ not talking or even looking at anyone‚ you know? The one with the glasses‚ the braces‚ the ‘uncool’ shoes; the classic victim. For as long as I could remember I’d been picked on. Whether it was someone thieving my books‚ or pushing me over ‘by accident’‚ there was always something. The awful thing was‚ nobody seemed to care. The teachers chose not to see it‚ and my parents just told me to deal with it; “just ignore them”

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    The characters Candy‚ Crooks‚ and Curley’s Wife all exemplify loneliness and isolation. By creating and describing these characters‚ Steinbeck is showing the reader symbolism in the characteristics of these three characters and how it can alter the story and the characters in it. Candy demonstrates the theme of loneliness throughout the whole novella. By the way he acts towards other characters in the novella. For example‚ he was only close to his dog before he met George and Lennie and he was

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    Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying this theme effectively through key fictional characters in Of Mice and Men. By living in the town of ‘Soledad’ (Spanish for loneliness)‚ the audience gets an overwhelming sense of the depressing environment that the migrant farmers are living through by their repetitive lifestyle and the consequences they face through the Great Depression and the Dustbowl. Yet another aspect of

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    Hamlet as we all know is a young man who has lost his father and is looking to seek revenge. One can say a dancer is much like hamlet in a way. They are both looking lost and lonely looking for a way to express their emotions. Loneliness can be caused by so many things. Hamlet doesn’t necessarily come out and say that he is lonely but the audience can point it out by the events that have occurred in his life. “If you marry‚ I’ll give you a curse as a present…” (act3‚1‚136-137). Hamlet has

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    Loneliness In Anne's Life

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    Anne was caged up like an animal at a zoo for a very long time. She was hidden from the rest of the world. Anne didn’t know what was out there‚ she didn’t know what was left of the world. All she knew was the world of the secret annex. The life of living in a small space with various others. Her childhood was taken away from her but she was able to make the best of it. In many ways‚ Anne was like any other ordinary teen. Her circumstances were different but she is just like any of us. As Anne enters

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    the theme of loneliness as Of Mice And Men begins and ends with nature. This displays loneliness as men are inherently lonely in civilisation and the cyclical structure shows the reader that the best place in the world is in nature where there is n o other man but himself and this is shown by "i stink to you..you stink to me." The reader empathises for not just the men in the ranch but everyone in the world as they understand that the characters are living on hell on earth. "Loneliness…gets sick"

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