Thanatos is a concept, in which the person feels that he or she can get rid of all his sorrows only by death. In fact this urge for death exists in every person’s inner consciousness. At the same time there are people who feel that there is no death instinct in their personality, because somewhere their life instinct is strong. Depressive and negative people have more desire for death than life. For example in a drama called Hamlet by Shakespeare when Hamlet came to know that his father was murdered by his uncle and his own mother, he was in such an agony that he sighed and said: "To be or not to be … that is the question" It happens even when a person is very much happy, in that extreme joy, he or she sometimes feels to die. The word called 'Death' can be easily seen in Woolf's most of the novels like example in Mrs Dalloway. It’s like a ghost that cannot be expelled from the consciousness of the mind. The question which has been raised here is f
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