Essays on Loneliness

In Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore,’ loneliness consumes the main character throughout the novel. Kafka Tamura’s loneliness is a constant inner battle that not only affects him but the people he meets along his journey through the mountainside town of Takamatsu. Kafka has an…

“Our life is frittered away by detail.” As individuals, we center much of our consciousness on the materialistic aspects of life which renders us blind to its more salient features. We need to live in a simplified manner in order to perceive all that living…

With an increase in the number of elderly people in the world’s population, there as also been an increase in mental health problems, one problem is greater loneliness in on these older people. Within long-term care facilities there has been greater awareness and action to…

Unfortunately, it affects more people than can be fathomed, and holds no cure. Many think that loneliness only affects the weak and emotionally detached, but in fact, it affects many more people than meets the eye. Loneliness can be seen everywhere, and in everyone. In…

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. – F. Scott Fitzgerald Let’s start this with a question! What do you do when you feel alone? I don’t know…

We must all die alone, which really means, that our pain is for us alone to endure. A German writer whose name was Goethe had a lot of friends, at an intense moment, he spoke bitterly: No one has ever properly understood me, I have…

Many themes are evident in “Of Mice and Men”, including friendship, fate, and the American Dream. One that is most prominent, and can probably be connected to every character except Slim, is loneliness. Candy experiences loneliness from the loss of his dog; Crooks is discriminated…

The Depression of Holden Caulfield There are many factors that can go into causing a person to be depressed, according to webmd.com, a few of those things are; abuse, conflict, death or a loss, loneliness or major events such as moving. Holden Caulfield from J.D….

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, A Street Named Desire by Tennesse Williams and the poetry of T.S Eliot were all written in the written in the first half of the twentieth century, during a time which two World Wars had torn apart the world…

Does technology make us more alone? At first, the question seems silly. Why would it be making us more alone? It is connecting us so we can communicate with people all over the world. We can be close to friends without physically being there. This…