Daiana RME
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Exile
People refer to exile as something unexplored, something that would never happen in their lives, but it can happen in a matter of a second and ruin the entire life of a human. Exile is something that, if it finds you, you won't be able to escape or hide from it, it is the confronting reality of accepting that there is nothing left but melancholic memories of what people used to know and consider their identity. Historically speaking there are thousands of cases where people are obligated to abandon what they love the most, leaving them with a single idea of what their life would be like; uncertainty, a feeling that traps people with their fears, their worries and frustration, blinding themselves with a darker perspective of what hope used to be. Exile, defined as nothing more than a personal prison, an idea that is substantially reflected through literature. The essay “Reflexions on exile” of the author Edward Said, explores the concept of what exile means today and its clear relationship with such destructive emotions, undoubtedly “The Refugee”, book written by Bernard Malamud, a supposed fictional story, has more connections with the real world and with Said's essay than with a fictional world filled with fallacies. Both texts portrait a single idea bonded with a theme, exile being a self molded prison that will chase and consume an individual’s entire life, leaving nothing more than a void that can’t be filled with a temporary and fake new place that can be considered a new home, but filled with frustration, anxiety, and fear.
By Daiana RME4 years ago in Psyche