Clear instances of alienation can be seen in many of the works of literature. In Richard Wright’s Rite Of Passage a young boy’s struggle to deal with abandonment is followed. William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies illustrates alienation from civilization and the drastic changes that result. In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome the alienation is both physical and emotional. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka tells a bizarre tale of a man who is disjoined from his family when he wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. The play

On the island the boys still had a structured society. The community was radically adjusted to better suit the new environment. Instead of being part of and identifying themselves with several groups they now are all divided as separate individuals. The boys are thrust into a crisis when they are alone on the island. They have to adapt to new ways where scape goating becomes the prime method to which obstacles are solved. Resultantly, when a boy is singled out and blamed they are alienated from the group at large for some amount of time or from some particular activity.

Family meals, which are traditionally a central activity of family bonding, are symbolically not shown in the play.” The mother of the family is dually isolated. First she is isolated by her gender, as the only woman of the family, and secondly by her morphine addiction, which pushes her farther and farther from reality.

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