Alienation

Alienation One of the underlying themes of Twentieth Century writers has been to point out the increasing alienation of people from their families, communities and society. It seems the more technologically advanced we become and the more compartmentalized our lives are, the more difficult it is to remain connected to our humanity. Authors and poets warn us about alienation and its effect on us. They give us examples in their stories or poems like The Glass Menagerie by T. Williams, In Another Country by E. Hemingway, or The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. All these have examples of how alienation affects human beings, and foreshadow what will happen if we don’t change ourselves. In The Glass Menagerie by T. Williams, everyone experiences their own little world, and the shock is to be thrown from it. Tom supports his family despite his unhappiness of his world. He tries to please his mother, Amanda, by being the supporter, but only gets rewarded by Amanda's constant nagging and suspicion. Eventually Tom finds himself more like his father and he seeks adventure in the movies and desperately seeks the life he always desired. By hanging out on people, world, one, machines, cannot, alienation, about, soldiers, society, human, himself, another, amanda, women, williams, very, tom, themselves, story, song, should, seeks, says, recover, prufrock, out, menagerie, major, love, lose, imaginary, humanity, he’s, going, glass, father, examples, escaping, country, connected, beings, become, always, alienate, alfred, writers, woman, while, warn, war