Zedka is a classical case of “Clinical Depression” and “delusion” but she has a perfectly fine life with kids and husband but somehow thinks that an older lover is looking after her. There he tells her that she has developed heart condition as a result of her overdose and has one week of life left and hence admits her to the hospital for observation.ĭuring her stay in Villette, she meets quite a few patients, some of them have more impact on her than others. Igor who is somewhat crooked and a bit mad of a doctor himself. This is where our story begins in earnest as there she meets Dr. The keyword here being “tried” as she wakes up several hours later in an asylum called “Villette” Despite her perfect life, she decides to die just for the sole reason of having no drive to live so she overdoses on sleeping pills and tries to die.
She has all the money and “friends” she could need and her life is seemingly perfect. She carefully cleaned the room that she rented in a convent, turned off the heat, brushed her teeth, and lay down.” With these lines, it is made clear that our Main character Veronika wants to die but the reason for her wanting to die is not something that is common but rather that she is frustrated at people not knowing where her hometown Slovenia is. The book begins with the lines “On November 11, 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had-at last!-arrived. Based on some of his personal experiences in quite a few mental institutions, he explores the darkness within the minds of those who try to kill themselves exploring questions like “why do they do it? What do they gain by killing themselves if it means to end their lives? Do they think of the consequences and the effect they will have after they die?” Along with the major question that still exists in the real world and always has been since the dawn of human intellect and suicide “What can we do to prevent suicides” and tries to answer then through the view of both the doctors involved with Veronika as well as Veronika herself. The book is about the psychological journey of a 24-year-old girl Veronika who got fed up with life and it’s mundanity and one day decides to kill herself. Veronica decides to die is a 1998 Novel by the Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho who is widely known for the use of human psychology in his books and how they always reflect some parts of the dark conscience of a human in one way or another.
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