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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 11:13:10am
Author: sk
Subject: motivations
In reply to: Mary 's message, "OK, it's too quiet around here. Let's talk about Madeline!!!" on Monday, February 21, 05:37:04pm

I think that the writers chose to have Madeline kill herself in part because it didn't make sense -- it just added to the "world turned upside down" quality of that story arc. I don't think they set it up especially well (no surprise) and it is easy to pick it apart in terms of characterization, but the response to that could just be the usual "nothing is as it seems in Section."

I can cobble together a set of justifications for Madeline to commit suicide at that point in the series, but they aren't especially compelling. Along the lines of a "perfect storm," or "collision of circumstances" explanation, she was coming from a stressful period where she had a series of professional and personal failures, she was faced with a significant and potentially fatal change in Section, her psychological/emotional supports had been eroding steadily over a period of time... She placed a great deal of importance over controlling her environment, and she was seeing that control being taken out of her hands. Suicide is sometimes described in terms of control issues -- choosing your death can be a way of asserting yourself, as twisted as that seems.

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Yeah, that's it exactly for me. (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, February 22, 11:35:51am