Precursors to Suicide in Life and Works of Sylvia Plath and Sarah Kane

Precursors to felo-de-se in Life and Works of Sylvia Plath and Sarah KaneIntroductionWe argon going to describe factors associated with the suicidal sue in lives of Sarah Kane and Sylvia Plath as reflected in the late works of these two female authors who committed suicide when they were 27 and 30 years old. Antoon Leenaars and Susanne Wenckstern (1998) confine written ?Suicide notices are in all probability the ultrapersonal documents. They are the unsolicited productions of the suicidal person, usually written minutes forrader the suicidal death.? Literary works of suicidal authors written in the sequence in the first place their death can be read as such(prenominal) suicide notes.It is possible that the suicidal process set off before Sarah Kane started to write her best play and before Sylvia Plath wrote the best poems of her invigoration. They might have been either created in an attempt to set the suicidal process covering (Viewegh, 1996) or as a pure manifestation of this suicidal process which might have brought most sudden burst of strong natural creative powers. In both cases we might take these works as suicide notes and poetic accounts on a dramatic search for the implication of life and existence.Nevertheless no suicide note is able to fountain a complete account of the suicidal mind. Such a note must be put in the context of the individual life as Shneidman said (1980) and in the context of broad theoretical formulations about suicide and personality functioning in general as tell by Leenaars (1988) if one wants to downstairsstand the motives lying behind.1Risk Factors for SuicideVery concise description of risk factors for suicide has been offered by Leenaars (1988) and is base on studies of 10 theories of suicide. There are 5 subcategories included under the intr... ...Leenaars, A. A. & Wenckstern, S. (1998). Sylvia Plath A protocol analysis of her last poems. Death Studies, October 1, 1998, Vol. 22, Issue 7, ISSN 0748-1187. Re trieved may 6, 2005 from Academic Search Premier Database.Plath, A. & Plath, S. (Eds.) (1975). Letters Home. London Faber and Faber.Shneidman, E. S. (1980). Voices of death. New York harpist & Row.Shneidman, E. S. (1982). The suicidal logic of Cesare Pavese. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 10, 547-563.Stirman, S. W. & Pennebaker, J. W. (2001) Word uptake in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets. Psychosomatic Medicine. 63, p. 517-522 2001 American Psychosomatic Society, Retrieved declination 20, 2004 from http//www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/63/4/517Viewegh, J. (1996). Sebevra?da a literatura (Suicide and literature). Brno Nakladatelstv gobbler?e Jane?ka10