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    The main purpose of the following work is to analyze two pieces of modernist literature “Mrs Dalloway”‚ by Virginia Woolf and “The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber” by Ernest Hemingway in the light of point of view and experimentation. Both stories are important references to the movement they belong to‚ and share the same modernist characteristics. It is possible to say that they both break with traditional narrative features by going into the minds of the characters and including new writing

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    The novel‚ Mrs. Dalloway‚ purpose was to expose how shell shock and other mental illness was misdiagnosed by medical professions‚ who was supposed to acknowledge anything wrong with a patient. The novel had many good reviews about the message behind the novel‚ but many critics believed Virginia Woolf wrote the novel to deal with her own mental illness. In a way‚ the novel was a snippet of the author’s life because Woolf’s doctors did not understand her horror story with depression. The critic David

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    Access to H.E. English Literature To What Extent is Mrs Dalloway a Modernist Novel? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ the world of literature was undergoing some changes in style and perspective. Just after the turn of the century – the previous having seen massive changes in the industrial world – the literary community was presented with one of greatest tragedies in human history: the First World War. This international conflict‚ mixed with the changes in industry

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    New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway‚ by Virginia Woolf‚ was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the close reading of a particular excerpt‚ it shows the relationship of a husband‚ a WW I veteran‚ and his wife. The text can be found on page 23 of the novel. “For she could no

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    This paper explores the complete analysis of the complete development of Mr. Sweeney Todd. Mr. Todd‚ who once was London’s most skilled barber and loving husband and father‚ has recently been revealed as an evil mastermind responsible for killing of hundreds; including his own wife and accomplice Miss Lovett. Todd had lured his victims into his shop for “a clean shave”‚ he would claim‚ and thereafter slit his victims throats with his shaving razors and thereafter disposed them into the hands of Miss

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    Author: Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf‚ one of the greatest feminist writers in English literature‚ has published numerous novels and essays throughout her life‚ among which Mrs. Dalloway(1925)‚ To The Lighthouse(1925)‚ Orlando(1928)‚ A Room Of One’s Own(1929)‚and The Waves(1931) are well-known to readers all over the world. Woolf had been living in patriarchal society ever since she was child. Some said that she was kind of self-made. As a matter of fact‚ she suffered from mental breakdowns

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    Mrs. Dalloway Throughout history‚ mental illnesses have been an underlying problem that people just try to ignore. Whenever someone began to act “crazy”‚ they would be sent away to an insane asylum and be mistreated because there was something wrong with them. After World War I‚ people began to see the effects war could have on a person’s mental stability. This is when shell shock became a thing. Shell shock by definition is described as “suffering from extreme emotional disturbance… after experiencing

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    Mr. Holland’s Opus is about a man named Glenn Holland who is a white male music teacher‚ who began teaching music at John F. Kennedy High School‚ around the age of late 20’s to early 30’s. Mr. Holland began teaching because he felt that he could earn some money to support him and his wife‚ while he was reaching his goal of becoming a composer. In the beginning of his teaching career‚ Mr. Holland felt that teaching was all about arriving to school on time and giving lectures and test to his students

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    Mrs. Warren’s Profession In life the struggle between what is good and necessary for the individual and the moral values placed upon people by society is constantly present. This is true of the characters in George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Shaw demonstrates that doing something frowned upon by society does not have to be an evil thing so long as it is good for the individual. Perhaps the most obvious example of societal morals conflicting with individual need is the case

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    One of the most important themes of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and‚ by virtue of it being a derivative text‚ of ‘The Hours‚’ is that of mental health. The ways issues of mental health are presented are‚ almost universally‚ sympathetic and‚ in the case of the former‚ empathetic. The strongest symbols of this theme are Septimus and Clarissa in ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and Richard‚ Laura (Mrs. Brown)‚ and Virginia (Mrs. Woolf) in ‘The Hours.’ Most have problems which are very much the product of their time and we see the

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