Symbol of Death in Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and in Morrison’s Sula Seen from the Perspective of Archetypal Psychology
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The death scenes are the culmination of both Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Toni Morrison’s Sula. Lessing’s Susan, an intelligent white English woman, gradually loses the meaning of life as awealthy housewife in the patriarchal society and commits suicide as her solution in Room Nineteen of Fred’s Hotel. Morrison’s Sula, an African-American woman, grows up without having the normal ego under Eva’s matriarchy in a black community named the Bottom. Sula, after Nel’s marriage, becomes a symbol of evil to her community and drifts down to death in Eva’s bed. Reading these two death stories from the perspective of Jung’s archetypal psychology, Susan is not able to continue to live a meaningful life because her life energy is cut off from its source which is in the unconscious. According to Jung, the symbol is the medium of the psychic energy from the unconscious to consciousness. In modern society which is represented by intelligence, the religious and mythical symbols are removed by rationalism, which means disconnection of the flow of life energy from the unconscious. Susan’s death can be read as a kind of creating symbol to connect the modern people to the source of life energy. Sula’s case is the opposite of Susan’s. She remains in the unconscious world without having the proper ego in the absurd reality of racial and sexual problems. Sula finally rises again in Nel’s awareness, becoming a symbol of the feminine goddess like goddess Inanna.
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The death scenes are the culmination of both Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Toni Morrison’s Sula. Lessing’s Susan, an intelligent white English woman, gradually loses the meaning of life as awealthy housewife in the patriarchal society and commits suicide as her solution in Room Nineteen of Fred’s Hotel. Morrison’s Sula, an African-American woman, grows up without having the normal ego under Eva’s matriarchy in a black community named the Bottom. Sula, after Nel’s marriage, becomes a symbol of evil to her community and drifts down to death in Eva’s bed. Reading these two death stories from the perspective of Jung’s archetypal psychology, Susan is not able to continue to live a meaningful life because her life energy is cut off from its source which is in the unconscious. According to Jung, the symbol is the medium of the psychic energy from the unconscious to consciousness. In modern society which is represented by intelligence, the religious and mythical symbols are removed by rationalism, which means disconnection of the flow of life energy from the unconscious. Susan’s death can be read as a kind of creating symbol to connect the modern people to the source of life energy. Sula’s case is the opposite of Susan’s. She remains in the unconscious world without having the proper ego in the absurd reality of racial and sexual problems. Sula finally rises again in Nel’s awareness, becoming a symbol of the feminine goddess like goddess Inanna.
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