http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/mrs.-dalloway Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:29:55 -0400 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:29:55 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/923/the-drama-and-romance-of-suicide-in-mrs-dalloway-and-madame-bovary By Jessica N. Laird - Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act. In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a traumatized veteran Septimus takes his life rather than letting the doctors take him into a mental institution; his suicide is later remembered by the eponymous character as a beautiful way to die. In Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, the titular character Emma Bovary poisons herself with arsenic in an attempt to end her life as a heroine in a novel would, leading to her departure... Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/923/the-drama-and-romance-of-suicide-in-mrs-dalloway-and-madame-bovary