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Author: XFllo

Feb 26th 2014 at 6:49:58 PM

Two examples have incorrect {{example indentation}} -- Hamlet and the Christianinty. It looks like ConversationOnTheMainPage.

I also support SuicideIsShameful for the title. (Plus I think this is really, really tropeworthy.)

Literature:
* Two examples from a collection of ballads ''Songs of Silesia''. The narator's sympathy is clearly on the suicide victims, but the society judges them and they cannot be buried in the graveyard because holly soil is not for them.
** "Teacher Halfar": Halfar suffers because he wants to teach children in their native language, but it's forbidden. He goes from school to school and has no money. He hangs himself, and the poem ends with a sarcastic statement that he has finally found a position -- a suicide's grave. 
** "Marycka Magdonova" tells a tragic story about a girl whose parents die and she has to take care of her younger siblings. They are poor, hungry and freezing. Marycka goes to steal some wood but she gets caught. She's ashamed to be seen and embarrassed by people, so she breaks free from the policeman and jumps from a rock. The ballad ends with describing her grave behind the graveyard wall "without crosses, without flowers".
* In ''Literature/MyAntonia'', Antonia's father shoots himself because he was too homesick and couldn't bear the hard life. The Shimerdas are Catholick while other familes in the neighbourhood are mostly protestants. Jim's grandparents are sympathetic to the poor family and another Catholick explains to them that for the Shimerdas, the suicide is a terrible blow with extra layer of suffering.