The feelings of emptiness and hopelessness are factors in which may influence an individual’s decision to commit suicide to put an end to their insufferable emotions. It is not normal for one to seek for death if there is not an ulterior motive that had triggered them to do so. Margret Atwood’s short story “Lusus Naturae” is written in a first person point of view, in which the setting of the story is during the mid 1800s when modern medicine and faith clashed between one another. Atwood had developed the protagonist of the story as a young girl to a freak of nature. In the short story of “Lusus Naturae,” Margret Atwood suggests a theme of wanting acceptance by using literary devices such as foreshadowing and symbolism throughout the story.
