'I can't fight any longer' - Louise Brealey reads Virginia Woolf’s final letter to her husband
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Tuesday.
'Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
V.'
Such a sad tragic letter but read with such passion and feeling. Well done.
A great literary talent. She was one strong lady. Her end was indeed tormented. So sad.
Had NO idea she had this kind of performance in her. Amazing!
WoW!! WoW!! WoW!! Such emotion, I could feel the pain and sadness jump out of the screen and touch my inner most soul!! Now, that deserves a standing ovation!! Bravo!!
This isn't just sad. It's frightening.
Wow...she nailed it ❤️❤️🔥🔥
Excellent reading of a truly heartbreaking letter.
Lovely interpretation. I can't help but hear Nicole Kidman's voice from the film. ❤
This catch me so strong. Brilliant job.
Bravo performance!!!!
so powerful.
I only ever read a room of ones own by her but quite enjoyed it. Indeed is a little privacy and independence too much for any creative person to ask for? Even if you don't want to write fiction like she did.
Very tragic.
And then she filled her pockets with stones and walked into the lake. It was a brave act, and a loving one. I hope, if I start to lose my mind, or have some horrible disease that is going to take me one piece at a time, that I have the same courage to end my life. It is cruelty to someone you love to make them suffer your slow disintegration.
Its also cruelty to make them deal with your sudden disappearance. Not that i think its unethical to do, but i also think its terrible to romanticize it or make it look heroic. There’s no good option in these situations, imo.
@@pantalaemon Let me tell you something, from someone who has been through it. It is not a sudden disappearance. It is a slow-motion drifting away, the person becomes someone you no longer know. It's heartbreaking. When the fighting for them grinds to a halt and there is nothing more to do; there isn't anyone I know who wouldn't wish for a peaceful and swift end for their suffering loved one.
@@karenburrows9184 i respect your experience. It sounds absolutely harrowing. I don't know that I would agree that everyone would want the same for hteir loved one, as I know a lot of people who had hope until the end, and would have given anything to get to keep that hope. However, again: I respect your experience, and I'm terribly sorry to hear about it. I hope you understand my objection was not to people deciding their own end, but to glorifying the act itself as somehow heroic or romantic, which is a terribly toxic thing to do.
@@pantalaemon Thank you for explaining your original point. It was both erudite and kindly. I must apologise, my experience and that of Virginia Woolf's husband were totally different, and do not bear comparison for that reason. I also thank you for your sentiments, but I did not recount my experience for that reason; it was to point out that people can, and often do, arrive at a place mentally where all they want is relief from the suffering, either for themselves or for a loved one. I think perhaps my explanation was misconceived. I do understand your objection to glorifying the act; but I think the circumstances may play a part; for example, "no greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends". How many mothers and fathers have sacrificed for their children, brothers, sisters and others under truly dire and threatening circumstances? How do we categorize this? I must thank you for stimulating my mental processes, you have kept me from being lazy on this subject. I also realized after the fact that Virginia Woolf was believed to be suffering from deep depression triggered by severe bipolar disorder, which would have altered her perception of reality and her judgement. Since this was not the case for me, I realize my arguement was off topic, strictly speaking, for which you must forgive me.
@@karenburrows9184 i appreciate that you took the time to write such a nuanced reply. I think maybe the lesson for both of us is that it's very difficult to say anything general about such extreme situations of human suffering, because as you point out, what they mean is often decided by particulars that only the people involved can really know. I guess that makes it hard to talk about, especially with regards to the morality thereof. I guess often when it gets to a point where someone really doesn't want to go on you're kind of beyond good and evil, in a way. My sympathies, again, and thank you for your patience.
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A nice good-bye leter
Very sad
When I was a teenager I loved V. Then I grew up and realised she was just another privileged ahole. But you can't deny her her demons and this is heartbreaking. It should be used to help demonstrate what some suicides are thinking. Many think they are releasing their loved ones from the problem of Them. Like she obviously did. I came close to suicide myself, but I was the opposite. I kept thinking ‘I can’t leave them with that burden. That would be so wrong.’
Because it Is a burden. If you knew a suicide you always ask what could I have done? Did I fail him/her? What was wrong that I didn’t notice? ‘ No one should be subjected to that.
Plus some people are left in real financial straits. You can’t do that to people you profess to love.
And you know what? If you fight on, for their sakes, life usually does turn around.
Not dissing people like V. She had been to Lalaland twice already. And it is a frightening place to be. But the more you visit, the more you understand it. That is how you get back.
There are people to help. Ring the Samaritans get medical help.
Just remember we are all but a hare’s breath from ‘madness’ so do not judge, but hold out a hand. Gently
PS I have also been a Samaritan, so I have seen both sides of the fence
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. As you've said no one's entitled to judge other people. Just a side note V already thought about the outcomes of her suicide on the ones surrounding her but she was convinced it was the best thing to do for both her and them. This is not to justify suicide but I think that's what she thought is best. Anyways, I do believe that no matter how broken we are the people around us may be able to piece us back together. So I hope you have such ppl to hold your hand whenever u need it.
This was a real letter, why overact it? It cheapens it.
She's not over acting. She brings real emotions to it
Terrible.
I would say she’s lazy
What????!!!!!
No doubt she’s a fine actress, but I just don’t find it appropriate to ‘perform’ a real life person’s suicide note. It would have been more respectful to just read it with some feeling in the voice, not turn a real tragedy into melodrama.
Blah blah blah... Give it up for big pharma. Now let's get on with living.
Ok troll, feel better now? Living? When are YOU going to start?
Man, youre a real student of the human condition, huh. Real expert on what other people’s pain is like. Regular old physician of the soul.
Fuck off with your easy, self-serving, cowardly, self-righteous judgments.
It's very sad to read a comment like this. You obviously need help.
What does big pharma have to do with Virginia Woolf, you goon?
The kind of comment written by kids who knock down other kids building blocks and never grow out of that way of treating others.
Devastating
A very sad ending for Virginia indeed 😢