Suicide in The Awakening

Suicide in The Awakening What is suicide? "(Suicide is) the act of self-destruction by a person sound in mind and capable of measuring his (or her) moral responsibility" (Webster 1705). "No one really knows why human beings commit suicide. Indeed, the very person who takes his (or her) own life may be least aware at the moment of decision of the essence of his (or her) reasons and emotions for doing so. At the outset, it …

…looked into the distance . . . heard her father's voice and her sister Maragret's" (Chopin, 698), and then she was gone. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." Literature: Thinking, Reading, & Writing Critically. 2nd ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto, and William E. Cain. New York: Longman, 1997. 607-98. "Suicide." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 21. 1973 ed. Webster, Noah. "Sucide." Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. Ed. The World Publishling Company. New York: Rockville House Publishers, Inc., 1965.