Unexpected Friendships

      "But this young man who had killed himself - had he plunged holding his treasure?  'If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy,' she had said to herself once, coming down in white.
       Or there were the poets and thinkers.  Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great doctor yet to her obscurely evil, without sex or lust, extremely polite to women, but capable of some indescribable outrage - forcing your soul, that was it - if this young man had gone to him, and Sir William had impressed him, like that, with his power, might he not then have said (indeed she felt it now), Life is made intolerable; they make life intolerable, men like that?" (Woolf 185).

Although Clarissa has never met Septimus, she seems to have a great understanding of his mind and his decisions, even more than Reiza has.  Earlier in the party, Clarissa hears that Septimus was in the war which is why he suffers so much.  However, Clarissa realizes that it wasn't his illness that caused him to commit suicide, it was the doctors, like Sir William, that made his life "intolerable."  The "treasure" that Clarissa mentions is Septimus's soul.  By flinging himself out the window, Septimus saved his soul from being corrupted by the doctors' wrong solutions for his condition.  Clarissa is the only character in the novel to understand that by killing himself, Septimus saved himself.

This reminded me of an episode of Merlin where the main character, Merlin, meets a boy named Daegal and doesn't fully comprehend his motives until he dies.  This isn't an exact comparison because Clarissa and Septimus never met but it still applies because Daegal and Merlin barely know each other.  Originally, Daegal was working Morgana, the evil witch, and tricks Merlin into going far into the woods so Morgana can kill his best friend, King Arthur, without Merlin interfering.  However Daegal has a change in heart and decides to help Merlin save Arthur from Morgana.  While they were saving Arthur, Daegal was shot and died.  Merlin realized after his death that he didn't come back and help him just to be nice, he did it to prove to himself that he still has goodness in heart after everything evil he has done.  Everyone in the kingdom thinks he is just a nice guy; only Merlin knows the truth about Daegal's actions just like Clarissa is the only one who understands Septimus' decisions.