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Sophie's Choice related mind-wrecking questions |
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Now, I've just been reading about Sophie's Choice and now my head brings up darkish situations all the time... 
Gosh, I just wonder, if anyone had to decide whether to chooose their own life or that of their lover's to be ended by a brutal Cosa Nostra guy, would choosing the first make you a hero and the latter a killer yourself, or would that be okay somehow if there was no other choice to survive?
Personally, I don't think that such a person could be refered to as a hero, but also that not many people would give their own lifes for their lover's. But even if they did, wouldn't that lover feel so guilty that he or she wouldn't want to live anyways? Or would they consider their life even more a gift than it was already? Or...
You see, I'm stuck here, would someone comment, please? 
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| Beitrag vom 18.11.2006 - 19:51 |
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First of all, I never read Sophie's Choice, and I don't even know what it's about, so I was totally surprised by the questions coming up here.
To answer your question, I don't know what to think about this subject. I mean, when would one ever get into the situation to chose between one's own life or one's lover's life to be ended? I guess there are lots of people who'd say they'd do anything for their boyfriend/girlfriend, because they love them so much. But would they really die for them? I also don't really think one could speak of them as heros if they died for someone else. It's just too sad to speak of something like that as a heroic action, I think.
Personally, I think I would feel guilty if I chose my boyfriend (or in that case, my imaginary boyfriend) to die. That's the only reason why I'd chose myself to die if anyone had to.
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| Beitrag vom 19.11.2006 - 15:25 |
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Same over here. And yeah, I know that it is something that you hopefully never get to decide anyways, but still... I had to ask and hopefully I get some more input on that subject.
So, for all of you who don't know what Sophie's Choice is... it 'is a novel written by William Styron about a young American Southerner who wants to be a writer and befriends Nathan, who is Jewish, and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but not Jewish) survivor of the Nazi concentration camps' [from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_Choice; I guess you'd prefer de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophies_Entscheidung]. That Sophie had to decide which one of her children she would give the Nazis to bring it to the concentration camps and which should survive. She choose her little daughter to die and her son to live, but I can't really understand why. Maybe I should read the whole thing before wondering... 
Der Post wurde 2 mal editiert, zuletzt von Prince Myshkin am 19.11.2006 - 15:54.
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| Beitrag vom 19.11.2006 - 15:52 |
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Hi,
I often think about questions like those. And I never found an answer to this question, because NOBODY would know what he would do in this situation. And, believe in me, you will never get into this situation.
What I would do is try to rescue both of us. It`s only psychologic, because the survivor would live with self-suspictions for its lifetime. And how would your own life be like then? Would you be able to enjoy it? Would you be able to live in peace?
I think there is the real problem.
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| Beitrag vom 19.11.2006 - 18:27 |
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Okay, that is true, you can't tell now cause you cannot possibly know what such a position would feel like.
But just take it from me: I would never give away the life of somebody I love for my own. I am so certain now because I just lost myself in my daughter's eyes... she is such a beautiful kid and she has all her life before her. Hell, the world will be her oyster if she wants it to. I'm so undescribably happy for being given this chance. 
And there we go back to Sophie's choice: how can somebody possibly decide which child should die and which should live? And then, how would that situation be like for the actual children hearing that "deal"? They must have been like 'WTF  ' and ' '... I can only assume though, still didn't have the time to get a hardcopy of that novel.
EDIT: corrected spelling mistake.
Der Post wurde 2 mal editiert, zuletzt von Prince Myshkin am 23.11.2006 - 13:25.
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