U April 2005 Paper Topics for Mrs. Dalloway Mostly Extrinsic Approaches • Autobiographical approach—look at Mrs. Dalloway from the perspective of how presentation of Septimus relates to Woolf’s own experiences with madness and Drs. (Biographical) • Septimus and shell-shock (Historical background) • Political context: liberal (labor) coming in Tories (conservatives) going out. More Intrinsic (text-based)\Approaches • Look at characters etc using FRYE o MODE:
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In "Mrs. Dalloway" Woolf discovered a new literary form that expresses the new realities of postwar England. Divided into parts‚ rather than chapters‚ the novel’s structure highlights the finely interwoven thoughts of the characters. Woolf develops the books protagonist‚ Clarissa Dalloway‚ and myriad other characters by chronicling their interior thoughts with little pause or explanation‚ a style referred to as stream of consciousness. Several central characters and more than one hundred minor characters
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Madness in Mrs Dalloway Madness is a prevalent theme in ‘Mrs Dallway’ and is expressed primarily‚ and perhaps most obviously through the characters Septimus Warren Smith and Clarissa Dalloway – however the theme is also explored more subtly in more minor characters such as Lucrezia and Mrs Kilman. Virgina Woolf’s own issues inspired her greatly‚ as she herself suffered her first mental breakdown at the tender age of thirteen and was prescribed ‘rest cure’ – just as Septimus is; Woolf is often described
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Mrs. Dalloway Passage Analysis #1 P.60 From “Everything seemed to race past him” (near top of page) through “dalloway would marry Clarissa‚” p.61 at bottom. The first sentence in this passage indicates Peter Walsh’s detachment from life. He is in a dream like state hazed by the fact his love (Clarissa) is beginning to distance herself from him. The sentence following the first illustrates Peter’s anger; as he has not yet looked at Clarissa all night. I believe he was almost trying to prove
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Woolf’s book‚ Mrs. Dalloway‚ Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith grow up under the same social institutions although social classes are drawn upon wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. Clarissa and Septimus share the quality of expressing through actions‚ not words. Through these basic beliefs and idiosyncrasies‚ both characters mimic each
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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 all her life time. Due to her half-brother Gerald Duckworth’s sexual abuse‚ Virginia
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Discussion questions: 1. In the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” both Clarissa and Septimus repeat a line from Shakespeare‚ what is the line and what is its importance to the characters? 2. In “Mrs. Dalloway” Septimus is created as Clarissa’s double‚ why do you think Woolf did this? 3. How are Clarissa and Septimus alike and how are they different? 4. Woolf uses Clarissa to convey her idea of social class and women’s wole within it; how does she achieve this? 5. WWI is a major part throughout the story
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that life can afford.’’ --Samuel Johnson In "Mrs. Dalloway"‚ Virginia Woolf uses the setting of the city of London to effectively show the vastly different emotional responses of the characters. The city of London‚ in June‚ is the primary location in which three of the novel’s characters are placed; although they inhabit the same period of time‚ they display completely different responses. The protagonist‚ Clarissa Dalloway‚ enjoys the experience from her position of privilege and comfort. Septimus
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aesthetic burden of the realist novel‚ these writers introduced a variety of literary tactics and devices: the radical disruption of linear flow of narrative; the frustration of conventional expectations concerning unity and coherence of plot and character and the cause and effect development thereof; the deployment of ironic and ambiguous juxtapositions to call into question the moral and philosophical meaning of literary action; the adoption of a tone of epistemological self-mockery aimed at naive
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In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf‚ everything and everyone is insignificant. That is‚ until someone or something starts to embody a larger idea that gives that person or object significance. Throughout the entirety of the novel‚ characters and objects themselves only gain significance once enshrouded by a larger representative idea. The occurrence of characters gaining significance through representative ideas can be seen when Clarissa refers to Miss Kilman and thinks “For it was not her one hated
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