G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy is about his beliefs of both the acts of martyrdom and suicide. Chesterton believes martyrdom is the act of someone giving their life to save or protect something else. He says, “A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life” (p133). Chesterton also sees a martyr as someone who is trying to begin something new instead of ending something. He says, “In other words, the martyr is noble, exactly because he confesses this ultimate link with life: he sets his heart outside himself: he dies that something may live” (p133). To make his point stronger, Chesterton compares martyrdom to a different subject, suicide.
In Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, he makes it clear that
In Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, he makes it clear that