Suicide

Suicide In Kate Chopin’s classic novel, The Awakening, Edna Pontellier was a woman who felt trapped and burdened by her life. She is unable to express herself or free herself from the prison that life had placed her in. She ultimately freed herself from her prison by committing suicide. Edna’s prison was not one made of walls and metal bars. It was one made of responsibilities and burdens. These burdens and responsibilities are similar to the ones that people who seek death share. When these responsibilities and burdens become too heavy to bear, people seek suicide as the only escape. There are many reasons why people feel suicide is the only option available. These reasons can range from an unhappy marriage to children or even stress and society. The list of reasons why people commit suicide is nearly endless and can be a combination of any of the reasons. Edna Pontellier could not bare the burden and responsibilities that her marriage, children, society had placed on her, which would ultimately cause her to take her own life. In all forms of satire, marriage is considered to be one of the worst possible outcomes that can happen to anyone being second only to suicide, marriage, edna, people, children, society, life, person, one, burdens, stress, feel, standards, unable, placed, love, felt, however, herself, reasons, pontellier, needs, lee, commit, become, things, responsibilities, own, need, happiness, feelings, child, burden, being, world, ultimately