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For Halloween, my department always has a costume party themed Famous Literary Deaths, and I can't seem to come up with something that hasn't been done before!. I know it's like six months away, but I'm bored and need something to do!. Any ideas!? I want to go as the lady from The Yellow Wallpaper, but she just goes insane and doesn't die in the story (although I'm sure it happened shortly after)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Tess from Tess of the D'ubervilles Catherine from Wuthering Heights Madame Bovary from Madame Bovary Catherine Barkley from A Farewell to Arms Juliet from Romeo and juliet Desdemona from Othello Gertrude from Hamlet Tabitha from A Prayer For Owen Meany Nastasya from The Idiot Lady Macbeth from Macbeth Jocasta from Oedipus Rex Ophelia from HamletWww@QuestionHome@Com Not fictional, but how about Virginia Woolf!. I was about to suggest the death of Sherlock Holmes but realised you are asking for yourself (female, I presume!?)!. How about the death of Catherine Earnshaw from Wutheirng Heights!. YOu only have to look sick and bewildered to look like Cathy!. Acting Cathy will be pretty tough, though!. Edit::::::::::::::To, Luthien I didn't mean drown yourself like Virginia Woolfe!. But Halloween is all about costumes, right!? So she can dress up to look like Virginia Woolfe!. She had those dry big eyes and quite a dead face!. She looked depressed because she was!. Depression led to her suicide!. TW KWww@QuestionHome@Com Tennessee Williams died very strangely - choked on the bottle cap to his eye drops!. He would hold the cap in his mouth, lean back and spill the drops in his eye!. I guess that one day, the cap just went down his throat!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I beg to differ with you!. The lady in The Yellow Wallpaper very much does die in the story!. Why do you suppose her husband opens the door and screams!? She has hung herself!. Pax-CWww@QuestionHome@Com Anna Karenina - hit by a train!. Jay Gatsby - shot and drowned!. Julien Sorel - beheaded!. Robert Jordan - shot!. Quasimodo - starved and skeleton-ized!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Ohh I agree with TW K!. You should do Virginia Woolf and drown yourself!. Or you could be Sherlock Holmes and Prof!. Moriaty!. Or Prof!. Dumbledore!. Something like that!. Oh! You could also try Boromir from LOTR!. Luthien TWww@QuestionHome@Com romeo and juliet!? hamlet!? othello!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Dress up as Sylvia Plath!.!.!.if writer's of literature deaths apply!.Www@QuestionHome@Com romeo and juliet!.!.or the crazy lady in jane eyerWww@QuestionHome@Com yeah do othello and like be jocasta and hang yourself!.!.!.well like have a noose around ur neck and stuffWww@QuestionHome@Com |