She is able to love small things that lead her to discover her life’s meaning. Her personality goes to the healthier and stronger one that allows her to view this life positively. In an asylum, Villete the insanity direct her growing personality. As she always focusing on her inner thoughts, emotions, feelings and ideas. Veronika is also an introvert and passive person. Personality growth and finding her new life in order to create a healthy individual, the psychological approach is reflected as the appropriate one to be applied in this study. Astonishingly, at the end, the world of insanity allows her to discover the meaning of life exactly is. There she obtains some new experience and new things. Consequently, it brings her to stay in an asylum, Villette. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of melancholia is used to discover the reason for Veronika’s depressed and stressful condition which urges her to commit suicide. Therefore she decides to die because ‘everything in her life was the same’ (6). She is not happy and satisfied in her life, she realizes this life meaningless. She is a Slovenian woman that seems to have an ideal life. Veronika is the novel’s main character and its protagonist. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.Veronika Decides to Die, it expresses about discovering the meaning of life.

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. Their subjects repented at once now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country? Then we will be the same as them.’Īnd that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication. When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each. The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. Inspired by events in Coelho’s own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. “Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank.

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