In what ways do literary characters find meaning or purpose in their solitude?

Synonyms: peace, peace and quiet, seclusion, isolation, privacy, more... Collocations: [working, studying] in solitude, prefers to ... This essay attempts to assess the highly prominent Nigerian novelist's (Chinua Achebe's) two very famous and rich novels, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. Oct 10, 1979 ... The Meaning of Man's Original Solitude. In the last reflection of the present cycle we reached an introductory conclusion, taken from the ... This solitude has two meanings: one derived from man's very nature, that is, from his humanity, and the other derived from the male-female relationship. May 3, 2016 ... A psychiatrist friend once pointed out to me that one of the definitions of psychosis is a fixed belief in an imaginary world lasting months ... ... loneliness, social isolation, and failure of finding meaning in relationships. It makes a fundamental contribution to anthropological and psychological ... Sep 12, 2022 ... In “Nature” — perhaps his finest essay, for being the most all-encompassing and spiritually lucid — he considers what solitude actually means, ... First, solitude often has a negative connotation. (outside of the psychology literature, dictionary definitions con- flate it with being “alone,” “lonely,” or “ ... May 18, 2021 ... Carleton University researcher Robert Coplan has been studying "aloneliness" — when we want to get away from people ... Apr 19, 2018 ... affective and cognitive discomfort or uneasiness from being or perceiving oneself to be alone or otherwise solitary. Psychological theory and ...