The movie "Splendor in the Grass," and the essays "The Crack-Up" and "The Doomed in Their Sinking," are about being in a confused state of mind. Deane Loomis in the movie hopes to marry Bud Stamper, her one and only love. F. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Crack-Up" describes his hopes of playing football in college and going overseas during the war. William Gass mentions his mother and how she "committed suicide" without an explanation, in his essay "The Doomed in Their Sinking".
At the ending of Splendor in the Grass, Deanie comes back from the mental institution after trying to commit suicide at the waterfall because Bud cheated on her. Deanie visits Bud, who is married to Angelina and has a child with her. Deanie asks Bud if he is happy, and he replies that he doesn't ask himself that question. The point of the movie is that we don't always get what we want in life, but we can cope with the outcome. In his essay "The Crack-Up," Fitzgerald points out how "I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love becomes an attempt". He is confused about the people he loved, and those he didn't. So, he decides to let go and forget it all, hoping to get an inner hush. By the end of his essay, after his attempts to step away and be alone, he realizes that it does no good, but he continues not liking certain people. He says "I will try to be a correct animal," meaning that he will become more cooperative and positive against people he doesn't like much. He will try to live on, even though these people concern him. The point of this essay is that we may not like certain people or how things turn out, but we can try to handle such people with care and do no harm.
In his essay "The Doomed in Their Sinking," William H. Gass explains how his mother "committed suicide" but, he doesn't know why his mother would do such a thing.
In the body of this paper, through literature review, I hope to address the following questions: What is suicide? Why do people commit suicide? ... Literature Review According to Patros, suicide is defined as "the deliberate taking of one's own life. ... Another aspect of suicide is the suicide note. ... (Suicide Notes) Suicide notes are a narrative explanation of death. ...
[Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2001] 16 and 385), both Hughes and Robinson speak of suicide even though they take different approaches to the topic. ... In Hughes "Suicide's Note," the reader is told the story through the speaker's eyes. ... The reader has no idea the speaker's state of mind before the interaction with the water, so the reader does not know for what reason the speaker would be committing suicide or if they were pushed to commit suicide. ... The first fourteen lines prepare the reader for the last two, with their stunning realization that Richard Cory has comm...
"All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil." ... Numerous times, Willy tries to commit suicide. ... In conclusion, all conflict found in literature reflects upon good and evil. ... Good and evil will always be seen in literature....
Great literature of the early 1900's usually consisted of controversial issues, which clashed with the views of society of that time period. One of the most popular issues is that of Edna Pontellier's suicide in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. ... Suicide is a choice Edna had to make, so that she would not be miserable her whole life. ... Thirdly, Edna's suicide freed her from the lies her life consisted of. ... Suicide has allowed her to be free, giving herself up for the sake of her children, her husband, and finally Robert. ...
As well, every 17 hours an officer commits suicide (Berman, 2014). ... GST is an explanation for suicide ideation for law enforcement officers. ... Does the occupation of working in law enforcement increase the risk of suicide? ... Literature Review Studies conducted within the realm of law enforcement officer deaths show there is a rising problem with the death of law enforcement officers in the United States due to homicide and suicide. ... There have also been studies on officer suicides. ...
Literature like Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic due to many different reasons. ... When she wakes up she finds Romeo dead because he though she was dead and he commits suicide then Juliet follows by committing suicide. ... Characters are the key to good literature. ... Many different aspects within the literature cause this. ... The actors also make any work of literature enjoyable. ...
A DIFFERENTIATION OF TIME PERIODS Throughout the duration of American Literature you can see the evolution if you will, of the peoples thoughts and beliefs on religion, the disenfranchised, and the conflict between individual rights and the group as a whole. ... Women were still regarded as a "lesser" being and continued to be for a long time, despite the vast amount of wonderful literature which came from a woman's hand. ... From "Self Reliance" he writes "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is s...
So, what is physician-assisted suicide? ... On December 10th, 1828, New York was the first state that specifically prohibits assisted suicide and it initiated a new law for America, the 14th amendment, to condemn the acts of assisting suicide. ... Death, chose to participate as the first physician to assist in a suicide. ... There are many arguments against assisted suicide, as well as arguments in favor of assisted suicide. ... Assisted suicide may be a compassionate response to unremitting suffering. ...
In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. The mid-Victorian period is classified as being around 1851-1870, a period of "intense and prolific activity in literature, especially by novelists and poets, philosophers and essayists," (The Critical Poet). ... Ruskin's account of how the Victorian women should ...
