SINUCIDEREA - ULTIMA SPERANȚĂ A OMULUI DEZNĂDĂJDUIT
SUICIDE- THE LAST HOPE OF THE HOPELESS MAN

Summary/Abstract: Suicide, the act of deliberately killing oneself, has been used in many important works of literature. Many scientists and doctors considered suicide as illness; basically people committed suicide when they were mentally ill. In literature suicide has been used to portray love, defiance, honor, despair. There are several themes about suicide such as: the survivor of suicide, murder followed by suicide, etc. In Antiquity suicide was considered the only way to redeem people from failure, to regain lost honor. Aristotle believed that „taking one’s own life to avoid poverty or desire or pain is unmanly… or rather cowardly”, but he accepted suicide under some circumstances. In the Bible the most widely known suicide is the one of Judas after his betrayal of Jesus. Suicide has become a common theme in literature and this paper focuses upon different situations that lead to suicide or attempts to suicide, also it emphasises the survivor of suicide and his feeling. Anna Karenina, Smerdeakov, Dmitri Karamazov, Julien Sorel, Dorian Gray came to a moment when they felt that committing suicide would solve all their problems or misunderstandings. Some of them were winners but some of them failed to live their life. Therefore, suicide was not a redemption from failure, it rather was the confirmation of weakness and failure.

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