Suicide in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)
Journal: Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Year: 2022

This paper studies the idea of identity loss and suicide in three novels that have different cultural backgrounds. These novels are Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). The paper discusses the theme of suicide in all of these three novels through concentrating on one major aspect which is individuality. Okonkow in Things Fall Apart, Anna in Anna Karenina and Werther in Sorrows of Young Werther h