Robert Browning’s Prospice: A Hopeful Prayer or a Suicide Letter

Shivani Vishwakarma

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.34436

Robert Browning’s Prospice: A Hopeful Prayer or a Suicide Letter

Author(s)	Shivani Vishwakarma
Country	India
Abstract	Literature has always been one of the modes of expressing one’s emotions, however dark they are. One’s thoughts are spread to others, by simply writing them down, and expressing them. In its world-creating capacity, the literary texts represent and describe the feelings of characters and narrators. Since authors are creating narrators and characters and what is happening to them, they are able to let readers know what these creatures of their own minds feel, and how they respond emotionally to what befalls them. Narrators, ultimately extensions of the author’s voice, have the unique ability to guide readers in understanding characters' emotional landscapes, whether subtly through indirect means or explicitly through direct commentary. Indirectly, narrators can reveal characters’ emotions by portraying their reactions—gestures, expressions, or speech patterns—allowing readers to infer their inner states. Alternatively, through direct commentary, narrators provide explicit interpretations or insights, offering a clearer, more straightforward analysis of the characters’ feelings. This dual capacity allows narrators to not only present events but to shape readers’ perspectives, fostering a deeper emotional connection and enhancing the story's interpretive layers. In short, a substantial part of the mimetic dimension of literature is concerned with the representation of feelings. These feelings include misery, pain, sufferings, joy, life and death. The relationship between literature and death or suicide has been a profound and enduring one, spanning centuries and cultures. Suicide, as both a human act and a philosophical concept, has inspired countless literary works, serving as a powerful symbol of despair, existential inquiry, and rebellion against the constraints of society and fate. In literature, suicide has often been depicted not merely as a personal tragedy but as a response to the larger human condition.
Keywords	Literature, Expression, Pain, Suffering, Help, Absurdity of Existence, Sense of Entrapment, Hope, Resilience, Escapism, Defense Mechanism, Personal Abyss.
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024
Published On	2024-12-31
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.34436
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g82gfc

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