Septimius Suicide In Virginia Woolf's Coward

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Bell saw Septimius’ suicide as foolish and hopeless. The last word Septimius heard was “Coward”. Woolf was criticized for making the women stronger than the men in the book. Bell stated a quote for Daniel Mendelsohn’s assertion in the New York Review of Books: “The women who are stronger, who choose to live, and who survives.” Bell sided with the fact the war really did affect Septimius’ mindset and behavior, but she believed he did not have to take his life in Bell’s point of view. The war affected with Septimius’ life and made him to think about suicidal thoughts. “Now we will kill ourselves” (Woolf 100). Also, Sir William Bradshaw was an evil person who "force the soul" and make life intolerable. In her one moment of true moral insight,