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    Curley’s wife being stuck lonely and married on the ranch made her lonely and unable to reach her dream. Crooks inability to reach his dreams came from his loneliness‚ caused from his seclusion due to his skin color. George became unable to accomplish his dream because he lost his friend who kept him from giving up‚ and he became a lonely ranch hand like the others. Through these characters‚ Steinbeck teaches us that if people are lonely they won’t ever reach their dreams‚ so they

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    Romanticism was a philosophical‚ artistic‚ literary and cultural era which began in the late eighteenth century. The Romantic era was a period of great change and emancipation and allowed artistic freedom‚ experimentation and creativity. Romanticism shifted the emphasis from logic‚ reason and rationality as valued in the Enlightenment era‚ to emotion‚ passion and individuality and the importance of the individual’s experience in the world and celebrated the importance of feelings and the imagination

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    Dirty-realism was shown in the short story by Carver he shows disappointment and truths that the character’s face. Realism is different in art Hopper showed accurate‚ detailed‚ unembellished of contemporary life. Being part of the military industrial‚ feeling lonely and having a marriage is part of reality which both “Cathedral” and Summer Interior show. You can see realism either throughout a short story or throughout a painting. The

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    In Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ the Party embodies the collective mind and all members are forced to participate in communal activities. Winston‚ locked in loneliness‚ becomes a lunatic‚ a minority of one‚ the only man still capable of independent thought. He is “The Last Man in Europe” precisely because he adheres to the importance of the individual mind. Orwell shows that totalitarianism paradoxically intensifies solitude by forcing all the isolated beings into one overpowering system. “Much of Orwell’s

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    can be taken for granted" is best shown through the actions of McDunn and the creature in the sea. McDunn describes living at the lighthouse as a "lonely life"‚ but it seems he doesn’t mind being alone. McDunn seems to find comfort in the loneliness of the empty sea and the "mysteries" of it. As well‚ he describes the sound of the fog horn as "a big lonely animal crying in the night". Later McDunn explains to Johnny how once a year a creature comes to visit the lighthouse. Conveniently enough‚ this

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    other even though their personalities are contradicting. The characters that populate this tragic story are recognizably all poor and desperate for work due to the Great Depression; accordingly the characters are all distrusting‚ irritated and often lonely. The novella explores the effects of loneliness and social isolation as well as whether the two characteristics are mutually exclusive. Lenny Small‚ a simpleton demonstrates the concept as he is socially isolated due to noticeable mental disability

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    A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway Plot Overview An old man sits alone at night in a café. He is deaf and likes when the night grows still. Two waiters watch the old man carefully because they know he won’t pay if he gets too drunk. One waiter tells the other that the old man tried to kill himself because he was in despair. The other waiter asks why he felt despair‚ and the first waiter says the reason was “nothing” because the man has a lot of money. The waiters look at the

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    on the farm that all have a dream. To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated. Most of the characters are lonely and the only thing that keeps them alive is their dreams. Some of the loneliest characters they meet are Candy‚ an old man with only one hand‚ Crooks‚ a black cripple and Curley’s Wife‚ a woman who has no identity‚ she is lonely even though she is married. Although they are all on the ranch together‚ they are lonely because of who they are and their history

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    show who loneliness impacts the three characters‚ Crooks‚ Lennie‚ and Candy. Firstly‚ throughout the novel‚ Of Mice and Men Crooks appears to be a private man‚ when he is actually a very lonely and depressed man. We know that he was lonelier than anybody else because of what he told Lennie‚ “A guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.” (p73) Though he is a very intelligent man from what Steinbeck describes‚ nobody even hardly looks at him let alone acknowledges him‚ which we find out when Lennie asks

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    twelve year old girl‚ whose name is Charley.This story takes place not only in Charlie’s home‚ but also in Eagle lake‚ and in other places. Charley was recovering from an accident that shattered her leg. She feels lonely‚ well her father works a lot and her mother who had recently died. It was the first time Charley had to hear that awful sound of silence.. Although Charley doesn’t know what the summer has in hold for her‚ she

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