Friday, Oct 24
Topic Due! for final paper
Mrs. Dalloway
Uses stream of conciousness to delve deeply into each character, including the history that brought them into the scene during the time the book takes place.
Themes:
How does Mrs. Dalloway fit in to Ms. Woolf's life and works?
One single day in the life of...the whole world?
Uses personal allusions about each person, back in time, around in space but a very small space; very defined and constrained by time and space but vast in characters.
Time is a major theme, hooking parts together
original name of the manuscript was 'the hours' (but it was stolen by another writer!?) and 'Mrs. Dalloway', as a title, helps the reader focus on the characters instead of the time frame.
tensions between public and private living (p.59)"...thinking it was outrageous to be disturbed at 11 o'clock on a day she was giving a party..."
flowers
seperateness and autonomy vs. feeling a part of things
Peter's walk eclipses Clarissa's on the east (he's been in the east, associated with colonization-ness, military, military statues on his walk, east is the lower class part of London)
Richard's touches Clarissa's path but on the west, the upscale part of London
Septimus picks up Clarissa's path and continues along it
According to Virginia herself, the characters of Septimus and Clarissa are as continuous as the paths they walk, two halves of the same whole, opposites containing a bit of each other
Wrote the experience with her own madness into the character of Septimus
***Stone=14 pounds so 11stone6 is his weight, a unit of measure no longer used (154+6?)
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