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Death Motifs In Evelyn Scott's Death Scenarios

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Evelyn Scott introduces the death motif by bringing in two different death scenarios: Winnie, who wishes for death, which is in direct contrast to thoughts of completing suicide in the case of Alice. Scott uses these visions of death for the female to imagine an escape from a life of oppression. Alice believes that death will bring amelioration from her darkness and Winnie, in her own right, uses her suppressed sexuality to commit an unspoken form of suicide. She knows she will die during the birth of her child and that Laurence is oblivious to the dark notion of her demise, "Laurence could not believe in death. He did not know it. But he was sick with death, because it oppressed his unbelief. He wanted to take it into himself and understand

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