Genre
Sociology, Psychology
Setting and Context
There is no specific setting for “Suicide.”
Narrator and Point of View
Emile Durkheim is the narrator who cites other scholarly references.
Tone and Mood
The tone is sociological, whereas the mood is diagnostic.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The main subjects in “Suicide” are individuals who’ve committed suicide (Suicidal folks).
Major Conflict
The conflict relates to reconciling various viewpoints concerning suicide.
Climax
There is no climax in “Suicide”: This is an analytical, sociological, and scholarly work.
Foreshadowing
Emile Durkheim does not incorporate foreshadows in “Suicide.”
Understatement
Emile Durkheim employs understatement in his argument concerning women’s capacity to cope with widowhood which he says is greater than men’s capacity to cope with being widowers. He ignores the reality that the women weather anguish and emotional trauma once they become widows.
Allusions
Emile Durkheim employs sociological, psychological, biological, and historical allusions when expounding the practice of suicide.
Imagery
Motivations for suicide are used in categorizing suicide into various kinds. Imageries of seasons are used in making conclusions on the times when individuals are most likely to terminate their lives through suicide.
Paradox
The likelihood of people committing suicide when life is “least difficult” is paradoxical. People would be expected to embrace suicide when their lives are ‘most difficult’ as opposed to when they are not experiencing any problems.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Emile Durkheim does not apply personification prominently, since the text is mostly analytic and scholarly.
