The Lonliness Sin of All

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Could sloth be the ultimate cause of loneliness? Sloth is a term meaning "lazy". The unwilling behavior of people to not seize the moment or to just sit by and let the world pass. Herman Melville tells a grim story of sloth in "Bartleby, The Scrivener". Ernest Hemingway depicts a soldiers struggles to readapt to small town America. "Soldier's Home" and William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" shows us that even amidst friends and family we can hold ourselves mentally hostage. Advances in technology doesn't always prove that working smarter not harder is the best solution. Is sloth the cause of loneliness or just a symptom.

Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener" is set in the fast paced city of New York, Wall St. to be exact. Bartleby is a copier for a lawyer. The lawyer is the narrator of this story. Bartleby exhibition of sloth ended his career and his life. He doesn't want to fit into the society, as he lets things just happen around him. Any task given to him by his employer (other than copying) is answered with the phrase "I would prefer not to." The lawyer decides to move his office to rid himself of the scrivener. Believing the relocation had exonerated himself of Bartleby, he is made aware

Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" tells the story of a war veteran's return home. Harold Krebs is that soldier. He returns home later than most, so he didn't receive a parade or any other special welcome. Krebs doesn't like talking about the war, he feels it is too much trouble to keep up with all the elaborate stories some of his fellow vets had told. Krebs spends his day on the front porch of his parent's house, watching the pretty girls pass. He has no interest in dating any of them, that would be too much work. His mother notices that his ambitions had disappeared. In an effort to save him from the lonely life he was leading himself into, she tries to persuade him to take the family car and take one of the pretty girls out for a date. He had never been offered the car before. Later at breakfast his mother again confronts him, this time it is about getting a job. She says, "God has some work for every one to do," "There can be no idle hands in His Kingdom". Krebs verbally lashes at his mother, upsetting her to the point of tears. Krebs apologizes as they drop to their knees in prayer. He decided he would go to Kansas City to look for a job. The story ends by saying "He wanted his life to go smoothly. It had just gotten going that way". We never know if Harold moved on or stayed. Harold's loneliness was welcome in his mind. All he wanted was to sit on the porch and watch the pretty girls pass.

Could sloth be the ultimate cause of loneliness? Sloth can be considered the loneliness

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