Social Media And Loneliness A Little Mixture Of The...

Literary critic Benjamin Roberts uses the gothic genre with a little mixture of the detective genre to critique the growing reliance on technology to communicate rather than actual human interaction. Roberts emphasizes his critique by bringing up the label our generation has been branded with â€Å"the loneliest [generation]† (2). Matt Pittman also argues this in his article â€Å"Social Media And Loneliness: Why An Instagram Picture May Be Worth More Than A Thousand Twitter Words†, â€Å"It is surprising then that, in spite of this enhanced interconnectivity, young adults may be lonelier than other age groups, and that the current generation may be the loneliest ever† (155). â€Å"I†Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s openness to the loneliness seems a little satirical, however, he’s still trapped with what’s making him insane. He tries to rationalize his preference for being isolated by saying â€Å"You might wonder why I locked myself into this white prison, well it’s pretty simple I don’t like my species† (Roberts 1), but in reality, technology has taken his ability to communicate normally as a human being. The Gothic genre emphasizes isolation something that â€Å"I† has done to himself. â€Å"I† seems to identify more with the characters on Netflix than the people in his classes. The elements of the Gothic genre continue when â€Å"I† contemplates his own sanity. â€Å"I†Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s sanity is not only reflected in the questioning of it, but in the way his mind keeps shifting topics. The short sentences across the story reflect â€Å"I†Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s lack of ability toShow MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesthe Sea†) or between man and society (as in Richard Wright’s â€Å"The Man Who Was Almost a Man†). It may also take the form of an opposition between man and man (between the protagonist and a human adversary, the antagonist ), as, for example, in most detective fiction. Internal conflict, on the other hand, is confined to the protagonist. In this case, the opposition is between two or more elements within the protagonist’s own character, as in Joseph Conrad’s â€Å"Heart of Darkness†, when Kurtz struggles (and