what did madame de tourvel die from?
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SwordIntoHeart — 13 years ago(March 27, 2013 07:15 PM)
Yes you can.
Madame de Tourvel had very pure feelings, and when she surrenders to Valmont she's unable to suppose that he'll leave her after only 4 months. She believes very hard he loves her and was about to kill himself if he couldn't get her -he wasn't sincere we know.
And he leaves her in a very mean way -telling her, suggesting she could seek another lover. That's unbearable to hear that for anyone, and worst for someone like her. When pain confines brain over limits, the body expresses it and follows. -
TheChamCham — 12 years ago(February 24, 2014 09:36 AM)
Could you please satisfy my curiosity as to why someone comes to the message board prior to watching a film? The parental advisory can tell you/warn you about what might concern you prior to viewing so why not just go there instead of chancing spoilers which are always on the message boards? Thank you. Cheers.
"I say,open this door at once! We're British !" -
ritamilo — 12 years ago(March 02, 2014 06:05 AM)
At first I thought she had tried to kill herself; she may have had tuberculosis, or consumption as they called it back then. It certainly would explain her wasting away and the cupping was a treatment that would have been applied. Such a shame that they believed that bleeding a patient helped cure them - so many were lost through weakness and literally being bled to death.
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Mehki_Girl — 11 years ago(May 05, 2014 07:48 PM)
Yesit can. Old people can die with in days, weeks, even hours of each other. People can die within a short period of time that their children die. People can and do die of depression, hopelessness, giving up.
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sidgirl — 10 years ago(August 29, 2015 08:22 AM)
Wasn't it mentioned in the film that she was very fragile anyway, physically? It was certainly shown that she was quite delicate, but I could swear there was a line early on about her never having been truly strong or well physically.
People said love was blind, but what they meant was that love blinded them.
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wmousie — 9 years ago(May 22, 2016 10:10 PM)
There was this thing people had in those days about
going into a decline
when thwarted in love. One becomes
morose
(depressed,)
vapourish
(cries incessantly), and disinterested in the normal pursuits of the day (eating, drinking, washing, getting out of bed.) What we would call having a pity party for ourselves.
Instead of realizing that this is a stage, which the patient will eventually get over, they called in the doctor. Calling for a doctor in those days was begging for trouble.
The first thing most competent, contemporary doctors would do was to bleed the patient. In this case, by cupping. The cups are heated, small incisions are made though the skin, and a cup is placed over the incision. As the cup cools, the air in the cup contracts, drawing blood through the incision from the body into the cup. You repeat a couple of times, and in a few days, if the patient has not improved, repeat again.
Now, instead of just being morose and depressed the patient is also anemic, and, since the doctor never washes his knives, or his hands, the incisions have probably become septic. From there it is a small step to infection, fever the shock of blood loss and death.
So, you see,
diegoag88
, with the help of a doctor, people in those days really could die of a broken heart. -
ardinsalim — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 01:48 AM)
she quite delicate to begin with, her phisyc look so fragile compared to others in this movie. she got ashtma attack every times vicount near her.
maybe she already had an illness, the stress from heart broken just accelerate it -
gianmarcorusso-51436 — 9 years ago(January 26, 2017 02:26 PM)
It's not asthma, it's because of the corset. Because of corsets women back then had respiratory problems for silly issues (silly to our contemporary eyes), like strong scents or even embarrassing situations, like happens to madame de Tourvel. And she was even lucky, some women fainted instead of showing just anxiety symptoms.
Btw, as stated previously, she probably dies because her depression is badly handled by those pedestrian-XVIII-century
physicians
, as they were called. Moreover, let's not forget that until late XIX century the origin of psychical diseases was almost entirely unknown.