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…traumatic period, which is interpreted as madness by readers and characters. With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world” seem to him…

…and childbirth, as well as death, was already a major part of Mary’s young adult life, and Frankenstein became her way to express her anxieties about those issues (Woodbridge). Soon after returning from Switzerland, Shelley’s wife committed suicide by drowning…

…to manhood lies in the balance. Cheswick, dismayed by McMurphy's surrender, commits suicide. Cheswick's suicide signals to McMurphy that he has unwittingly taken on the responsibility of rehabilitating the other patients. However, after protecting Big George…

…rights. The Awakening presents suicide as a valid solution to problems. People commit suicide because of isolation and loneliness or a serious disruption of one's life. It is easy to connect these characteristics with Edna's life, the isolation from the world…

…or to make decisions, loss of appetite or greatly increased appetite, slowed thinking and decreased energy feelings of worthlessness, guilt, hopelessness, diminished sexual interest, and recurrent thoughts of suicide and death, sometimes leading a person…

…infrequent side effects are: blurred vision, anxiety, nervousness, drowsiness, dizziness, anorexia, and impaired erections. The more serious but rare side effects are suicidal thoughts and acts, hypomania, seizures, and tremor. Depression is a disease where…

…hold and a remission from it has become too late. Rather than finding her alive, Antigone has committed suicide, resulting in Haemon’s suicide, and then the Queen of Creon’s own suicide as well. This mass of death spells out the great tragedy also destined…

…/To make us wish that we were in his place” (11-12). The fourth stanza finishes up the poem by recounting the night Richard Cory killed himself. Robinson cleverly built up Cory’s celebrated image in the first three stanzas, making his suicide in the last…

…enough to live better than a lot of lower-class families. But why had they committed suicide? Many prisoners who have been institutionalized for thirty or forty years have been known to commit suicide not long after they are released. Why? Isn’t freedom…

…for not committing suicide. Throughout the play he seems to wish for death and here we find out why he doesn't bring it on himself. This also gives us a window into his personality. This speech provides us with a clear understanding of Hamlet and his motivations. Hamlet…