/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15106061]

>reading old book (pre-1990)
>character dies from melancholy
I'm glad progress in psychiatry has mostly rid books of this stupid trope.

[Anonymous No.15106064]

>>15106061
It happens every day irl, I don't know what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.15106088]

remember when having a thought about anything whatsoever wasn't a pathology?
haha who am i kidding i should see a psychologist

[Anonymous No.15107172]

>reading Russian books
>female has histeric attack before staying 2 months in bed with fever

[Anonymous No.15107194]

>>15106061
if i don't get a gf soon i'm gonna die of melancholy desu

[Anonymous No.15107245]

I'm pretty sure melancholy meant something different in the past

[Anonymous No.15107256]

>>15106061
>reading crime and punishment
>he keeps passing out from distress and sleeping on his couch all day
jfc it’s like every chapter

[Anonymous No.15107402]

>>15107172
>>15107256
these are the worst parts about 1800~ era books

[Anonymous No.15107485]

>>15106061
>progress in psychiatry
What progress?

[Anonymous No.15107506]

This happens all the time though
Taking a huge emotional hit isn't good for your health

[Anonymous No.15107526]

>>15107485
Unsurprising that the isolated and too proud to ask for help people in the Rockies and southwest are killing themselves more often

[Anonymous No.15107650]

>>15106061
It's possible to die from extreme sadness. If anything, modern science has shown that the emotions we feel have direct physiological equivalent. Depression for example increases the risk of heart failure.

[Anonymous No.15107665]

>>15107485
Damn what's with the Inuit and suicide?

[Anonymous No.15107888]

The Liebestod is the epitome of literature. Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Werther, Anna Karenina, etc. There is nothing wrong with it. The fact that it goes against biology simply shows how the aesthetic and empirical world are different. Milton is incorrect on numerous accounts but that doesn't stop his epic from being phenomenal.

[Anonymous No.15107901]

>>15107888
Also, to show it's not a modern thing, you have the likes of Antigone who die for love in Ancient Greek and Dido in Latin.

[Anonymous No.15107923]

>>15107526
Everywhere is going up.

[Anonymous No.15107953]

[Anonymous No.15108056]

>>15107256
The NEET life portrayed in Crime and Punishment was very realistic desu why are you mad

[Anonymous No.15108068]

>>15107665
being in a cold shit hole isnt fun, probably

[Anonymous No.15108109]

>>15107172
>man gets into heated religious debate
>collapses with “brain fever” and is out of commission for the rest of the story

[Anonymous No.15108127]

>>15107172
>>15107402
read norrel & strange

[Anonymous No.15108138]

>>15107665
Attempting to hang on to your culture which you know is doomed, all while sitting dirt-poor in some shithole as the opportunities of “real civilization” beckon.
You see the same thing with a lot of other NA groups, I feel bad for the ones who don’t want to assimilate into the people who wiped them out in the first place, yet you’re basically a living tourist attraction if you stay. No wonder they’re all suicidal alkies.

[Anonymous No.15108554]

>book written before the 20th century
>a girl faints every five seconds

[Anonymous No.15108579]

>>15106088
underrated

[Anonymous No.15108615]

>>15107485
is there any difference to Germany's psychiatry?

[Anonymous No.15108789]

>>15108554
I wonder if a hundred years we will have the same discussion and someone will bring up girls getting blind drunk and pissing themselves when they laugh