Lord of the Flies by William Golding Essay -- community, socialism, lif

Isolation is the state in which a person is separated from the presence of other beings. Isolation can take three forms which include social, self-inflicted, and forced isolation. Each form is damaging to one’s well-being including their physical and emotional health. Isolation is portrayed through the novels, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley through the inclusion of certain characters. Although all forms of isolation are detrimental to a person, social isolation causes the most wide spread damage to the individual. Social isolation is the most destructive form of isolation because it forces an individual to be excluded from the company of others even while the individual longs to be included. In the novel Brave New World, John portrays characteristics of someone who is isolated by force, through his mother’s destructive actions. John’s mother is extremely promiscuous and acts like she is from the World State even though she and John are actually living in the Reservation. She has sex with other women’s husbands, which makes them ostracized by the community. When they enter the World State, they don’t understand how the people there live such a controlled lifestyle, because they were accustomed to living in such a carefree society. John describes the reason he moved to the world state as â€Å"to escape further contamination by the filth of civilized life, it was to be purified and made good; it was actively to make amends† (Huxley 247). John and his mother long to live the perfect life they assume everyone is living, but they are sadly mistaken as their helicopter lands in the World State. The citizens of the World Sta te s... ...t and care taker personality, as Bernard is socially isolated for his free-thinking mind. Chief chooses to isolate himself from the other mental hospital patients by pretending that he is deaf and mute. Isolation affects all those that encounter it throughout their lifetime by making them feel alone, deserted, and detached in this sometime cruel world and society. Social isolation can affect the way a person lives and acts for the rest of the individual’s life by destroying the individual’s sense of unity and feeling of belonging, the person can feel alienated throughout the course of their life. Works Cited Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1932. Print. Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: Penguin Group Incorporated, 1962. Print. William Golding. Lord of the Flies. Salisbury: Faber and Faber, 1954. Print.