The Suicide Letter of a Young French Girl

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The Suicide Letter of a Young French Girl
I will give place the suicide letter of a young French girl, namely, Bertrande. She is daughter of a farmer family, the Guerre family. This family never join the revolution movements even though they had sympathetic feelings about revolution. The reason of their passive standing was Martin’s (father of Pamela) fear of to be labelled as traitor, to be judged and persecuted when king again takes the power. Due to his big fear, he did not allow to his wife and children to attend the revolution and they were not so willing too. Their passive standing ended in war in Vendee in 1793 because all of them persecuted except Pamela. In this subject, I will give place to the letter of Pamela that she wrote before her suicide.

My Last Words Before My Last Journey
There is no any reason to continue my life any more. My only hope turned into my end surprisingly. While I was hoping for the end of hard life conditions of my family and me, my old heroes became tyrants and the murders of my whole life. I am not sure that these words will be read in the future by someone or not, I just wanted to tell what I have collected in my heart for four years. It is my only choice because there is no anyone to talk anymore. All people have killed! Writing this paper and baring my heart is my only solution to sleep peacefully for forever.
First of all, I want to tell the whole story respectively. I think what we know is limited in this small province, Brittany. It is near to the ocean and far away from the Paris and Versailles. But, still our limited knowledge was adequate to upraise and to be murdered as Vendeans. The events started because of more desires of merchants in politics and bad living conditions of the soci...

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...ot the psychically. It was impossible to live in a death area alone or move to another region. Also it was impossible to be subjected to the government that ended my life and disappointed me in a high level. I can not obey them just because of being forced while hating them. I only remember the screams, the blood not the equality and freedom as they indicated in their freedom document.
I do not know will this revolution will be accomplished or not. What I know is that even such liberal, supporter of equality people can do this, and there is nothing to believe by heart in this brutal world. I am sure that this revolution process affected and changed the lives of all the French people. They did the most extreme things during this period. What is most extreme for me is killing myself and now there I am at this point. I hope, my country goes well after me even I am s

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