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Sexuality, particularly the type of sexual attraction that Clarissa detects in herself, is treated in a very delicate manner and giving specific consideration to the circumstances of the...
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There is an immense amount of war imagery woven into Mrs. Dalloway, expressing the trauma of a nation that, in 1923, the year the novel was set, was still recovering from the shock of the...
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Virginia Woolf uses Big Ben to represent, quite literally, the passing of time. The clock strikes the hours throughout the story to remind the reader, and the characters, that the day is continuing...
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There are several kinds of love present in Mrs. Dalloway. First, there is marital love, demonstrated first through Richard and Clarissa Dalloway and then through Septimus and his wife, Lucrezia....
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Virginia Woolf is trying to capture the subjectivity of knowledge and experience in Mrs. Dalloway. She reacted quite strongly against Edwardian novelists like Arnold Bennett, who created realism...
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Virginia Woolf is one of the most important English modernist authors. She was exceptionally good at using modernist elements in her writing, most notably in Mrs. Dalloway, one of her most famous...
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There are many similarities between Daldry's The Hours and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. I think that one of the strongest similarities between both works is how both probe into human thought. Neither...
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The main function of Peter Walsh, if we look at the text, is the way that he represents a profound ambivalence towards life. He acts as a foil to the stable Richard, whom he finds extremely boring...
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While all three novels are Modernist in their approach, with narratives cast in first person, plots concerned with the ills of society after World War I, themes of disillusionment and...
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Michael Cunningham superimposes certain characters from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway into The Hours. For example, Cunningham's Clarissa Vaughn is essentially Virginia Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway....
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In 1984 John Barth published an article titled "The Literature of Replenishment" in Friday Book: Essays and Other Non-Fiction (John Hopkins Press)where modern novel is defined, among other things,...
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Mrs. Dalloway was banned in some communities because of the homosexual attraction of Clarissa to Sally at Bourton. "Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with...
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In "Mrs. Dalloway", the author accurately reflects the disbelief and sense of loss that existed in this period, just after World War I. The conflict that many believed would never come and should...
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Mrs. Dalloway is primarily not a comic novel, dealing as it does with suicide, loss, compromise, failure, aging, the inability of the medical system to treat mental illness, and the repercussions...
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Sally Setton, also known as Lady Rosseter, is Mrs. Dalloway's lifelong friend. Ever since she and Clarissa were adolescent, Sally was the foil to Clarissa's character, representing, doing, and...
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Modernist literature saw a need to challenge the traditional modes of writing and overturn them, subverting literary forms in a desire, according to Ezra Pound's maxim, to "Make it New." This was...
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The setting of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway takes place in London, during the Summer of 1923. This time frame sets the novel approximately six years after the end of World War I which, in itself,...
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Septimus returned from the war with shell-shock and had delusional thoughts and hallucinations. His mental disorder was not well diagnosed, and ultimately he killed himself rather then bear the...
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The main stylistic feature of Woolf's writing in this novel, and generally in her other texts, is the way that she uses a particular style of narration to express the thoughts and feelings of her...
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Woolf tells us in the introduction to the 1928 eidtion of her book that Septimus is intended to be the double of Mrs. Dalloway. Indeed, she first thought that he might live while...
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Woolf once wrote that, "All human relations have shifted—those between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. And when human relations change there is at the same time...
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It is the assembly of the party where much of Clarissa's energies are focused. On many levels this holds significance. The focus of Clarissa's drive on the party helps to dislodge other, more...
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Sally Seton, Lady Rosseter, plays a big role in Clarissa's life. A childhood friend of the now Mrs. Dalloway, Sally is a product of the working classes. Once much lower in social rank than...
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Peter's significance to Clarissa is complicated. On the one hand, he is significant as her past love, the passion forever relinquished. On the other hand, during the time-frame of the story, his...
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The narrative technique Virginia Woolf employs in Mrs. Dalloway is extremely significant for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most significant and most commonly discussed technique is Woolf's use...
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To the extent that we are still reading and talking about Mrs. Dalloway almost one hundred years later, we would have to say this is a novel that has been successful in its purpose, content, and...
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There is no doubt that flowers, nature, and plants are recurring motifs in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Flowers are mentioned from the very start of the narrative and it is suggested that...
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Interesting idea to think about. I don't know where the name "Clarissa" came from, but the character was actually modelled on a friend of Virginia Woolf's called Kitty Maxse. What is interesting...
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The relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh is one of the most important components of Mrs. Dalloway. Peter and Clarissa had once been good friends. They were very intimate and...
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In this novel everybody is shown to be oppressed by the inherent loneliness that is an essential part of living. This is shown most clearly during Clarissa's shopping expedition to Picadilly, when,...
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Virginia Woolf belongs to a historical group of writers called "modernists" who wrote in a style called "modernism." Literary modernism emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, and also...
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There are several ways in which one can see Mrs. Dalloway as a Modernist novel. The mose dominant is that the novel's premise marks a "shift" in both content and narrative style. When Woolf...
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Virginia Woolf is often recognized as a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness, but to simply make that observation is not quite enough. Indeed, Woolf's writing style differs quite...
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Clarissa Dalloway identifies with Septimus Warren Smith's views on the meaning of life, she questions whether it is ever possible to be truly happy.When Septimus commits suicide, Clarissa is...
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It is interesting that there you are not finding much in way of Marxist criticism on Woolf's work. Perhaps, examining sites where pdf versions of papers written on the topic and then examining...
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In Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf explores the internal lives of her characters, which is why this novel is such a significant work of modernist literature. By presenting the inner workings of each major...
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The semi-ornate marriage of Richard and Clarissa Dalloway is quite representative of the social English traditions of their times; the demonstration of a productive and virtuous home, of a...
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Woolf's narrative technique in Mrs. Dalloway is stream-of-consciousness but a different form than, say, James Joyce. In Mrs. Dalloway, she is thinking a lot and the reader is privy to her constant...
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Several modernist characteristics of Mrs. Dalloway are as follows: The novel is written in stream-of-consciousness style. This means we see the world through inside of the characters' minds. This...
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway has a unique narrative style, salient for its shifts in the streams of consciousness, from one character to another. The characters spend the majority of the novel in...
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"Sentimental" is an adjective that can be defined as "resulting from or coloured by emotion rather than reason." As such, sentimentality is a key aspect of this novel, as characters such as...
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Speaking of the "challenge of modernist writing", we might be discussing 1) how modernist writers used stream-of-consciousness narrative and other techniques to present challenges to the reader in...
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Dialectical materialism is shown through the characterizations that define the world of Mrs. Dalloway. The definition of dialectical materialism comes from Marx. In the broadest of senses, the...
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I think that some of the most timeless quotes in the narrative are the ones that can be seen with as much potency as today. For example, consider the following quote that speaks to the trappings...
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I think that if you are assessing the role of memory in the Woolf work, you would have to engage into how the past filters into present and future. The vision of consciousness that Woolf offers is...
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Time (and the passage of time) is one of the most important themes in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. More specifically, the novel is largely about middle-aged people thinking about their youth and...
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Confinement is permeates the plot as one of the central themes of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. It is a theme that applies not only to the eponymous main character and to the character of...
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This is a very large undertaking in which, of course, eNotes can only point the way. We'll start by isolating a passage from the text that indicates contextual values, identify those values, then...
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I tend to think that Mrs. Dalloway can be best seen as a Modernist work and this becomes the best lens with which to analyze and interpret it. When Woolf writes about Modernism, she seems to be...
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I would argue that it might be best to keep Woolf's phrasing in its most simple terms as possible. Part of her gift is that she is able to develop ideas and notions that really challenge one's...