Friday, April 04, 2003

Someone must die so that the living will value live more

hi again...
I can't help not to write again...
it's because I just came back from watching 'The Hours'...
it's so beautiful...the way each character faces death...their own or others...
virginia woolf killed herself because she couldn't stand life anymore...it is 'the best way'...
she couldn't stand the isolation of her country house and the way people were treating her...
she killed herself because it is the only way...
richard also killed herself...by jumping off his apartment window...(btw, virginia killed herself by drownin herself)...
it is because he saw no purpose in his life...his life according to him is merely continued because of mrs.dalloway...
when you see that your life has no more meaning to yourself...why bother living it?
richard saw that he kept on living is simply for ms.dalloway...not for himself...and he finally ended it...
but before that he asked mrs.dalloway...what would her life be when richard is dead?
mrs.dalloway's life was devoted to taking care of richard...that is her purpose in life...
when the objective is removed...there is nothing left to be done...there is no 'goal' anymore...
her life, as richard said, will become trivial...meaningless...
and there is the third character,
she is my favourite character..I don't know exactly why...but there is this morbidity and loneliness and emptiness in her eyes...
the way she moved, talked, stood...everything...as if she was longing for something...
she tried to kill herself...to get away from everything...
but she failed...in the end she ran away from her family...
I don't know why...there was never an explanation why she did it...
there was something Virginia Woolf said that is very interesting...
she was going to kill someone in her novel and when her husband ask why someone must die, she said...
"someone must die so that the living will value life more"
how true...
how true...