How Are The Minor Characters Used To Convey The Theme Of Isolation

Isolation and alienation can have a great impact on relationships. In “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross and “The Fall of a City” by Alden Nowlan, both main characters struggle with being secluded from others which affects their relationships with others. The authors use setting, symbolism, and conflict to capture and describe the influence of isolation.

2. Summary: Meursault, a shipping clerk living in Algiers, receives news of his mother's death. After hearing about the death of his mother, he travels to the nursing home that that he put her in after no longer being able to financially provide for the both of them. Unlike the traditional response to death by grieving for the deceased, Meursault continues on with his daily tasks as if his mother had never died. During a trip with Raymond and Marie, Meursault shoots the Arab, the brother of the mistress that cheated on Raymond, and is imprisoned. Meursault is eventually convicted and sentenced to death because of his inability to conform to the societal expectations of French Algeria in the 1940’s.

“ I feel like no one knows how to make me feel better. I am all alone”( Writerchic11). In the Catcher and the Rye, main character ,Holden, is trying to connect with people. Although Holden attempts to connect with other people, he do not think that he fit in with people around him. Holden thinks that he do not belong in a group with the majority of people. “In The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D.Salinger, there are lots of unsuccessful attempts ,which Holden makes to try to connect with people. From all those failed attempts, they create isolation between Holden and other people. Isolation happens through the beginning of the novel, Pencey Prep, to the ending of the novel, New York City. It seems like Holden is trying to leave a group,

To isolate can be defined as causing a person or place to be or remain alone or apart from others. Isolation is a epidemic that devastates millions of people, making them feel useless and hopelessly alone. Being detached from society and human interaction is an awful feeling and can lead to serious mental and physical problems. If isolation is so disastrous, why do authors make so many characters feel isolated to the point where the characters actions and emotions are only based off of this isolation? Authors such as M.T. Anderson in Feed, J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye and Ursula K. Le Guin in Tehanu all create some sort of isolation for their characters. These authors create isolated characters not only to display how bad being isolated

Meursault was guilty of shooting the Arab multiple times, killing him immediately. With no remorse, Meursault fired the gun at the Arab after he was already dead. When Meursault was tried for the murder, he was convicted more on the content of his character, rather than the crime itself. The

Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malicious intent. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, the main character is accused of murdering a man on the beach and sentenced to death by guillotine. A more fitting verdict for this crime would be manslaughter, due to lack of malicious forethought. Meursault, the main character, shows sociopathic tendencies throughout the book. He also goes to the beach where he murders the man without knowing the man would be there. The Arab who Meursault shot had already slashed Meursault’s friend with his knife and during the second encounter, the Arab took his knife out again, so Meursault fired at him. To completely understand why Meursault is not guilty of murder, one must understand

One of the most plaguing blessings of humanity is its ability and necessity to understand the nature of the universe. Despite the best efforts of mankind’s brightest over the course of 7,000 years, the answer to the question, “what is the meaning of life?,” continues to remain a mystery. The

The feelings of alienation and loneliness are severely bitter and harsh. Isolation can often lead to insanity. People try to achieve and maintain relationships every day. When isolated and lonely, the mind becomes distorted, resulting in abnormal behaviour. A key theme in literature is alienation. Isolation is visible in Ross’ two short stories “The Painted Door” and “One’s a Heifer”. “The Painted Door” portrays a married couple Ann and John, who are struggling emotionally. With a storm approaching, John goes to his father’s farm to help with chores; leaving Ann home alone. John invites Steven to come keep Ann company. Ann ends up having an affair with Steven and John comes home to them sleeping in bed together. After the devastating sight

According to Jane Addams “The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself”. In The Stranger by Albert Camus, he examines the immortality of man; therefore social constructs are unreliable. Social constructs are changed when Meursault does not cry at his mom’s funeral, when he shows no sign of affection when Marie asked him to marry her, and when he has no remorse for killing the Arab. Thus, Camus examines in the novel, The Stranger, what happens to society and the people within it when people do not care.

The endgame of Samuel Beckett is well known for reflecting the spirit of time in relation to the reaction of individuals in terms of overwhelming political and social changes of 20th century. The works of this play are the productions of an ironic golden age in which the developing technological

Absurdism is the belief in that all human beings exist in a purposeless, riotous universe. Inside The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Camus centers to a great extent around persuading his readers of the idea of absurdism. The novel is depicted in the first person of the character Meursault from the time his mom dies to his trial for killing an Arab man. These occasions portray how human life must be comprehended by tolerating the reality of death. Camus effectively persuades his readers on his thoughts of absurdism and shows how understanding/confronting death influences one's view of life.

The Stranger is written by French theistic-existentialist Albert Camus and is about a French man named Meursault who lives in Algiers. Meursault is a subjective, logical and existential character that we see come into a different light throughout The Stranger due to the overbearing influence that death has. The Stranger is structured equally into the three deaths in the novel: the death of Meursault’s mother, Meursault’s murder of the Arab, and the execution of Meursault. However, to understand the mind of Meursault and the content of The Stranger, it is important to also understand the mind of Albert Camus. Camus never specifically refers to himself as an existentialist but certainly must be investigating his works and his philosophical

Introduction: In the novel The stranger, written by Albert Camus Meursault kills a man, “The Arab” in act of self defense. After Meursault is put to trial, his lawyer becomes more focused on Meursault's attitude and believes. When meursault mother died, he had a very unemotional attitude, which causes

The metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka and published in 1915. In this novel the author tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman who lived with his family, and sustained it financially till the day he woke up to realize he had transformed into a "monstrous vermin". Gregor ends up dying due to starvation and he is thrown to the garbage. The cause of death of Franz Kafka and the main character in this novella is particularly the same.

The man behind the book, Meursault, has had many ups and downs throughout his times in this book. Living a very basic life in Algiers practically all nice and calm, until the call of his mother's death, where everything simply rolls down hill becoming bad and worse. Meursault lived as