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…all to walk their own way. He wanted them to know that they should do that in life. This was the same point Emerson was trying to make in his poem "Self Reliance." He said that "imitation is suicide" He also said that "the great man is he who in the crowd…

…love for her, increasing her resolve and determination to be with him. Eventually, when Robert refuses a relationship with her and leaves, Edna is so distraught that she commits suicide by drowning herself at the very place that Robert taught her to swim…

…no part in those deaths and that the blame lay solely on Joe’s partner, Herbert Deever. At the end of the play, Chris’ realization that his father was guilty brings about anger and then remorse, when Joe commits suicide due to his guilty conscience. Joe has…

…was surrounded by death, being a medical student and with his mother dead, and his brother recently dead, despite Keats’ attempts. He talks of suicide, by “hemlock” (2), poison, and of the after-life, “lethwards had sunk” (4). He perhaps wants to follow his bother…

…and that the blame lay solely on Joe’s partner. At the end of the play, Chris’ realization that his father was guilty brings about anger and then remorse, when Joe commits suicide due to his guilty conscience. Joe has done everything in his life for his sons. Once his…

…to sled into a tree and commit suicide. This is a major point in two ways. First it will get rid of all Ethan’s troubles and worries. Secondly and most importantly, this makes Ethan unable to face consequences for any decision that he has made in the past…

…to be heroic. Through lies, bribery and deceit, he ruins Dr. Veraswamy’s reputation and humiliates the tragic hero, Flory, causing him to commit suicide. It is the victory of evil that gives the story its tragic nature. The character Elizabeth in the novel…

…as "being possessed by a spirit" and being a "suicidal neurotic." Madeleine is beautiful and Scottie finds himself yearning to understand the woman he watches. Scottie saves Madeleine from throwing herself into San Francisco Bay and begins a face-to-face…

…. In a survey of gamblers anonymous, twenty-six percent said they had been divorced or separated because of gambling; thirty-four percent had lost or quit a job; twenty-one percent had filed for bankruptcy; sixty-six percent had contemplated suicide…

…that is expressed serve to reveal not only the tragic nature of his problem, also highlighted by his allusions to suicide, but also create a link between him and the audience. In fact, the entire soliloquy establishes a connection between the audience and Hamlet…