Identity and Control, By Harrison White (2008)

From the chapter 7.4.5 "Suicide by Envelope"

"To explore persons and events simultaneously, turn to suicides as a unique combination of person and event that is designed to erase identities and end story. Suicide is a personal speculation about context insofar as no rhetorics are deemed available to adequate to quide future control efforts. This is failure as involution in contrast to glasnost.

"Suicide comes when the set of stories available fail to account for how disciplines are woven together in a person. Suicide is rare, for for sets of stories have evolved over time to give maximal flexibility as well as robust rhetorics to subsume identities in institutional contexts. Priests are rarely caught short in explaining things, and other persons can imitate that skill.

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"Suicide is the identity disembedding. An external stochastic trigger may signal some perturbation that is overwhelmingly disruptive to the identity's embedding, but often none is evident.

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"Suicide can generally be seen as an event generated as a means of filling in and making effective an identity. Events of suicide must be construed in terms of the contingent network in which they are embedded. Stories among events and actors are further developed so as to accommodate the contingencies and mismatches that are their origins. Suicide prevents a resolution of mismatch through a story centred on termination of identity."

...and so Paul's suicide in the play, which we might here put down to a lack of social power, ironically realises his character?