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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf’s classic example of modernist fiction, Mrs. Dalloway, is a unique literary experiment for a number of reasons. Chief among them is the fact that this novel only covers one day in...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Wuthering Heights
Although the novels differ in many ways, they also have several things in common. One is obvious, but it is sometimes easy to overlook the obvious. That is, they are both novels, imaginary stories...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Indeed it is true that the stream of consciousness is the most salient element in Mrs. Dalloway, which, as a sample of modernist literature tends to gear toward the introspect world of the...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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
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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Mrs. Dalloway
I think that your thesis statement is to affirm the question. The question, which itself, is more of a statement, is accurate. There is a distinct feeling of loss, dissatisfaction and exclusion...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The novel 'Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man is regarded as one of the earliest Modernist novels. The author, James Joyce, wrote the novel partly as a response to the older realist style of the...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf recognizes that one Modernism is about the "shift" in human relations. On such "shift" is the idea that the narratives of ordinary lives do not have to have something related to drama or...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Using stream-of-consciousness narration, Woolf is able to depict the thoughts of individual characters. This allows each character to think differently. One of the themes of the text is that...
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Mrs. Dalloway
I would suggest that Woolf's own understanding of Modernism plays heavily into the social criticism in the novel. Consider own Woolf's own viewpoint: "All human relations have shifted—those...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
"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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
The character of Peter Walsh in this wonderful novel acts as the foil for Richard, the man Clarissa eventually married. Peter is a character who is shown to be ambivalent about so much and lacking...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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...
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Mrs. Dalloway
Well this is the question, isn't it? Especially when you think of the scenes like the introduction of random "commoners" and "men without occupation" in front of Buckingham Palace. They are brought...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
There are a good number of instances where Woolf changes the focalizing character although it is not precisely correct to say she changes the point of view. The point of view all throughout is...
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Mrs. Dalloway
In Virginia Woolf'sMrs. Dallowaythe main character, Clarissa, is a woman whose class and status in society, as well as her upbringing, has deprived her of a much-needed separate time for...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
This is certainly not the case; Clarissa did not marry Richard--and reject Peter--so she could be the hostess of parties. This, though, was Peter's accusation cast at her. It may be a little...
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Mrs. Dalloway
Miss Kilman is presented as a character who harbours feelings for Elizabeth that are so strong she feels overpowered by them. She is well aware that she loves Elizabeth with a love that is...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
When Woolf suggests that the essence of Modernism is the idea that "all human relations have shifted," I think that this becomes one of the driving forces behindMrs. Dalloway. Consider the...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
There is of course the sense in which the character of Peter Walsh shows how Clarissa as a character was in the past and compares her to her present stage in life. This occurs at various stages in...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa's party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended by most of the characters she has met in the book, including people from her past. She hears about Septimus' suicide at the party...
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Mrs. Dalloway
A pleasure offered by modernist writing can be found in moments where conventional grammar is subsumed by a larger syntactical logic, so that a sentence which might be a "run-on" elsewhere becomes...
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Mrs. Dalloway
The answer to this question rather depends on what themes you have already identified. However, one of the more interesting themes from my perspective is that of social change. This theme is based...
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Mrs. Dalloway
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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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf does an excellent job at subverting the stylistic devices used in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. The way she does this is by using pure realism to explain (quite respectfully) topics that...
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Mrs. Dalloway
An internal monologue is the thoughts that a person expresses silently to themself. In literature, an internal monlogue of one or more of the characters is termed an interior monologe, and is a...
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Mrs. Dalloway
The character of Lucrezia Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is twenty four years old. She is described with the following traits and characteristics. She had a right to his arm,...