isolation is not a natural state

solitude and seclusion

marginalisation could be a form of seclusion too

  • similar to outsider essay

  • gaveston/satan

  • adam/edward

    • long soliloquy in book 10

    • edward alone in cave

  • eve/isabella

    • “For solitude sometimes is best society,” - eve

  • god in solitude

    • “not pleas’d, thus entertained with solitude”