Loneliness Essays

Being alone and being lonely is different. You can be alone but not feel lonely and yet feel lonely even when you’re with other people. Enjoying the feeling of solitude doesn’t necessarily mean I’m anti-social it’s just that I enjoy the feeling of having time...

Loneliness is solved by fully accepting that one is lonely and how loneliness is affecting their lives. Defense mechanisms may prevent those who suffer from recognizing just how lonely they feel. Finding some good friends is thus vital in touching the lives of those who...

Loneliness and solitude. Two words that appear to be similar but are very much different. Solitude is when someone is comfortable with being alone, while loneliness is wanting to have company but is somehow unable to. When looking at Guy Montag’s and Leonard Mead’s case,...

Keeping in touch is no longer about face to face, but instead screen to screen, highlighted by the fact that more than 1 billion people are using Facebook every day. Social media has become second nature — but what impact is this having on our...

The paper will focus on the different impulses of loneliness and exile in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist that Changez, the central character and narrator, goes through in the United States of America while working as an employee at a firm called Underwood Samson and...

Anita Desai’s Cry the Peacock is a powerful novel representing the estranged relationship of a husband and his wife. The dreams of a simple, loving and admiring girl come to tatters after her marriage to Gautam, a practical minded and romantically dull husband. Maya, a...

Loneliness and isolation are themes explored in various differing ways throughout Tennessee William’s play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) and Colm Toibin’s novel ‘Brooklyn’ (2009), mainly through the way their protagonists are presented and developed. In ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, loneliness is caused...

J.D. Salinger was a literary giant despite his slim body of work and reclusive lifestyle. His landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye, set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted Salinger to the heights of literary fame. Catcher in the rye...

The advent of Social Media has seen more people connected than ever before; this is done through the social media chats across the internet. Ironically, social psychologists contend that in this virtual connection people are very lonelier and even more isolated. The psychologists further explain...

Loneliness is a universal, human emotion that is complex and unique to each individual. Friends are needed for emotional stability; otherwise, they would live life in solitude. Loneliness can lead to continuously seeking for a companion or relationship. In the book Of Mice and Men,...