Best artistic suicides.

1. Best Artistic Suicides.
-Himanshi Parmar

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Name :- Himanshi parmar.
Roll number :- 8
Enrollment number :- 4069206420210025
Email id : himanshiparmar3004@gmail.com
Paper number :- 107
paper name :-The Twentieth Century Literature: From
World War II to the End of the Century.
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Date :- 12/4/2022
Day :- Tuesday
Time :- 11 to 2:30

3. Points to Ponder
Writers who committed suicide.
1- Virginia Woolf
2- Earnest Hemingway.
3- Sylvia Plath.
4- Sergei Yesenin.
5- Anne Sexton.
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4. Suicide rates in various countries.
Social norms behind the suicide.
Psychology behind suicide.
Conclusion.
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5. Virginia Woolf
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
- Virginia Woolf.
Woolf was institutionalized several times and attempted suicide twice
before drowning herself.
Filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into the River
Ouse on March 28, 1941.
Reasons behind her death :-
1- she was physically abused.
2- Depression and mental illness.

6. Reasons behind her suicide
3- her homosexual relationship with vita Sackville.
4- Nazism.
5- Society.
6- bipolar disorder.
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set
upon the freedom of my mind.” - Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country
is the whole world. - Virginia Woolf
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9. Earnest Hemingway
Hemingway shot himself to death.
He was suffering from hypertension.
His wife, Mary, said that he had killed himself accidentally while
cleaning the weapon.
"Mr. Hemingway accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun this
morning at 7:30 A.M. No time has been set for the funeral services,
which will be private.” - Mrs. Hemingway Forth wife of Hemingway.
His father, Dr. Clarence E. Hemingway, was also shot himself to death at
his home in Oak Park, Ill., in 1928 at the age of 57.
his wife walked away from an airplane crash in 1954
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10. White
Is the color of milk and fresh
snow, the color produced by
the combination of all the
colors of the visible spectrum.
You can also split your content
Black
Is the color of ebony and of
outer space. It has been the
symbolic color of elegance,
solemnity and authority.
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11. Sylvia Plath
Sylvia committed suicide at 11 February 1963 in London.
Before that also she tried to commit suicide but saved.
Reasons behind her suicide are,
Extreme workload.
Love
Mental instability
She wrote series of letters to her friend before his suicide.
Rejections from publishers,
Her Father's death and Husband's Adultery.
insomnia and depression.
“I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb,” she wrote in her journal.
Plath killed herself at the age of 30 by sticking her head in an oven in her London home on Feb. 11, 1963, as Nicholas and Frieda
slept nearby.
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click here to read
article on death of
plath

12. A picture is worth a
thousand words
A complex idea can be
conveyed with just a single
still image, namely making it
possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly.
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13. Sergei Yesenin
He was died at 28 December 1925 (aged 30)
alcoholism and depression.
he wrote a poem in his blood and hung himself.
Anne Sexton
She suffered from depression most of her life and was in
therapy.
She asphyxiated herself in her garage and died of carbon
monoxide.
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14. Charts of suicide rates
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16. Social norms behind suicide
Social environment around person.
Rituals and culture.
Sheeple environment.
Mentality.
Lack of ability to deal with society.
In the health communication journal, sentence of Downs and
Eisenberg (2012) mentioned that, the relatively low levels of public
stigma about those who use mental health services to shift
perceived social norms and promote more positive attitudes about
treatment uses”.
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17. Psychological reason behind suicide
Behind each suicide and attempt is a long-term struggle of these
individuals as well as experiences of trauma and distress among
their relatives and friends.
suicide is a major health problem and a leading cause of death
worldwide.
horrible and painful experiences.
Longtime stress and extreme level of tension.
This all terms are explained well in this journal titled Editorial:
The Psychology of Suicide: From Research Understandings to
Intervention and Treatment. Click here to read it
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18. Thank you.
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Citation
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