In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it is shown that loneliness is more than just a physical pain. It can be felt by one who is in a room with several people, or by one who has many friends. Sometimes it can even lead to extreme depression and can cause one to want to end their life. For example, Mick is living with her family in a house full people. She is surrounded by people every day. She has friends and a family and several boarders to keep her company, yet she still has no one to confide in. She feels like there is something inside of her trying to escape and she wants to tell someone but has no one, except for Mr. Singer who we find out later has some of these feelings of his own. She has no one to love and just when she thinks she has Harry to care about, he leaves her. This is similar to Biff's situation. Biff loved his wife. He cared for her very much. When she died, he was upset but didn't really show it. He redecorated his bedroom the way he had wanted it. He did things his way and just when you would think that he was over her, he'd spray himself with her perfume. He misses her but hides it so well. Mr. Singer also hides his loneliness well but not on purpose. Mr. Singer is a deaf man who cannot let anyone know how he feels. He hides behind his silent smile as everyone around him confides in him, asking his advice and not even realizing that he is fighting a mental battle of his own. After Antonopolis leaves, Mr. Singer feels he has no one to care for. He moves into the boarding house and although he is bombarded with "friends" every day, he still has no one that he really cares for. He is alone and no one seems to realize it. Finally, the pain becomes too much and he ends his life. His case was an extreme one in this emotion.
Explication on "Lonely Hearts" "Lonely Hearts" is a villanelle; which consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed manner (Kennedy G33). Wendy Cope chose the title "Lonely Hearts" because the poem focuses on different personal ads. ...
The Burden of Loneliness: A Study of the Dominating Theme in Carson McCullers" "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" Loneliness is something that most people have experienced at one point or another in their life, and the emotional crush that comes with it is something that nobody enjoys. ... "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is no exception. ... Each of the main characters deals with being lonely in one way or another. ... Many people have experienced what it feels like to be lonely. ... Copeland's loneliness is caused primarily by his stubbornness. ...
A clear example of motivation is shown in the fictional novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. ... The aspect of motivation is clearly represented throughout the fictional novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers, by all of the characters. ...
In his poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud," we can see his use of imagery and emotion at its best. ... These dancing, fluttering flowers caught the heart of our speaker. ... The cloud he mentions is used not to represent loneliness, but rather, aloneness. Like they say, "there is a difference between begin lonely and being alone." ... He mentions the words "solitude" and "lonely," yet he doesn't sound depressed. ...
In his poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud," we can see his use of imagery and emotion at its best. ... These dancing, fluttering flowers caught the heart of our speaker. ... The cloud he mentions is used not to represent loneliness, but rather, aloneness. Like they say, "there is a difference between begin lonely and being alone." ... He mentions the words "solitude" and "lonely," yet he doesn't sound depressed. ...
Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. The least obvious theme is loneliness. In Hamlet most of the suffering and loneliness Hamlet endures is brought with the secrets and betrayals he is forced to keep. ... The final blow for Ophelia's heart comes when Hamlet kills Polonius by mistaking him for Claudius. ... In conclusion Hamlet's suffering and loneliness was primarily brought upon himself. ...
However, these two characters suffer from a different type of loneliness, they kind of loneliness they have doesn't much involve people. ... Holden Caulfield in The catcher in the rye is a very lonely person. Even when he was young he was lonely, after his brother dies of course. ... Blanches loneliness started when her husband killed himself. ... Blanche also tries to fill that loneliness void by trying to find love. ...
An Explication on Loneliness: Robert Frost and Ezra Pound Everyone has felt lonely at one time or another, regardless of their magnitude of wealth, size of family, extension of the friendship circle, or position in a crowd. It crawls on your skin like a shadow, quickly making it's way into your heart. ... In Frost's Acquainted with the Night, he uses an aimless walk in the dark of the night as a metaphor for the loneliness that he knows so well. ... Those two lonely lines are very telling, though. ... The simplicity of the poem adds to the sparse nature of his loneliness. ...
(Well of Loneliness p. 26) This was only the start of a heartbreaking struggle for Stephen to discover herself. ... (Well of Loneliness p.58) That was not the last time that she was regarded by others as manly in appearance or action. ... (Well of Loneliness p. 57) Her father, who supports her most of the time, denies Stephen this request. ... (Well of Loneliness p. 210) This was a huge liberation to her as it is to many lesbians. ... She was willing to provide for Angela and give her everything her heart might desire. ...
