Alienation

Alienation The frequent use of alienation as a centering theme is due to the fact that it is common to all humans. Alienation is a feeling of not belonging. This feeling can be physical, mental, religious, spiritual, psychological, political, social, or economic and often it tends to be a combination of more than one of these types. Alienation is a driving force that pushes the human conscience to extremes. Whether it is alienation from civilization or alienation from society, drastic changes consequently occur. States of alienation come to exist as the result of many situations. Characteristics of alienation that are common to many characters in literature will be examined in this symposium. 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 alienation, life, family, new, johnny, rules, home, gang, ethan, boys, time, one, often, mother, go, alone, alienated, state, society, people, group, first, because, about, world, result, long, left, feels, feeling, young, work, transformation, themselves, same, physical, once, night, mattie, island, insect, himself, gregor, find, boy, away, always, zeena, under, transformed