Suicide in the Awakening
What is suicide? "(Suicide is) the act of self-destruction by a person sound in mind and capable of measuring his (or her) moral responsibility" (Webster 1705). "No one really knows why human beings commit suicide. Indeed, the very person who takes his (or her) own life may be least aware at the moment of decision of the essence of his (or her) reasons and emotions for doing so. At the outset, it can be said that a dozen individuals can kill themselves and "do" (or commit) 12 psychologically different deeds" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 385). Suicide is written about in a variety of novels, short stories, and movies. Suicide moves like an undercurrent in the sea of themes of The Awakening. The possibility of suicide and even the idea of death darkens the story, making Edna's emotional ups and downs dangerous - her occasional misery leads her to subconsciously think of suicide. She holds the hopelessness at bay by moving out and getting her own apartment, while trying to find a man who will accept her, but in the end she succumbs. Edna's closest physical brush with death occurs one night at the beach, when the summer reside
Leonce Pontellier tries to hold Edna down, wanting her to be a mother and a housewife, when she knows she is not like that. He is a disreputable man-about-town who draws Edna out to the horse races. " (Chopin, 698); they sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days. She could have chosen sleeping pills as her method of death, but she returns to the beach because of its memories of the summer, and the men in her life. She overestimates her power and almost doesn't make it back. For a moment, he brings her away from the precipice of suicide. " Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged.
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