Part 8

Part 8

1. Septimus

   • "Had he served with distinction... in the War itself he had failed"
   • "He was attaching meanings to words of a symbolical kind"
   • "One of Holme's homes?"
     • Witty, cynical
   • "The fellow made a distasteful impression"
     • "distasteful" normally reserved for speaking about art, or fashion. Makes him sound snobby, pompous and incredibly shallow
   • "watching the watery gold glow and fade with the astonishing sensibility of some live creature on the roses, on the wall-paper"
   • "to be alone forever"
     • LK to Clarissa
   • "a young hawk"

2. Rezia

   • "She had asked for help and been deserted!"
   • "the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying"
   • "Never had she felt so happy"

3. The Medical Profession

   • "the stream of patients being so incessant, the responsibilities and privileges of his profession so onerous"
   • "It took half his time to undo [general practitioners'] blunders"
     • Builds hope for Bradshaw
   • "rest, rest, rest; a long rest in bed"
     • repetition emphasises monotony and extreme boredom of such a 'cure'. Also shows how he is actually clutching at straws; repeating one idea because he can think of nothing else
     • "rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends, without books, without messages; six months' rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve"
     • Yellow Wallpaper, Wier Mitchell
   • "We all have our moments of depression"
     • Degrading problem
   • "in this exacting science which has to do with what, after all, we know nothing about"
   • "secluded [England's] lunatics, forbade child-birth, penalized despair, made it impossible for the unfit to propagate their views until they, too, shared his sense of proportion"
   • "shredding and slicing... counselled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion"
   • "The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill"
   • "It was their idea of tragedy... Holmes and Bradshaw liked that sort of thing"
   • "The coward!... and why the devil he did it, Dr Holmes could no conceive"

4. The Establishment

   • Lady Bradshaw: "the wall of gold, mounting minute by minute while she waited"
   • Lady Bradshaw: "took photographs, which were scarcely to be distinguished from the work of professionals, while she waited."
   • "the slow sinking, water-logged, of her will into his"
   • "she cramped, squeezed, pared, pruned, drew back, peeped through"
   • "It was vaguely flattering to them all. He had come back, battered, unsuccessful, to their secure shores"
   • "[Richard] meant, whenever he had a moment of leisure, to write a history of Lady Bruton's family"
   • "He liked continuity; and the sense of handing on the traditions of the past"

5. Love and religion

   • "how detestable"
   • "would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul"
   • "here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"

6. Sir William Bradshaw

   • After Dr Holmes' complete and utter incompetence, Woolf builds hope around Bradshaw (as we know he is more expensive) but then it is dashed when he suggests rest
   • "the priest of science"
   • "not merely of lightning skill and almost infallible accuracy in diagnosis, but of sympathy; tact; understanding of the human soul"
   • "he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion"
   • "Sir William Bradshaw was not a nice man"
   • "He swooped; he devoured. He shut people up"

7. Hugh

   • "He did not go deeply. He brushed surfaces"
   • "afloat on the cream of English society for fifty-five years"
   • "one or two humble reforms stood to his credit"
   • "Hugh was slow. Hugh was pertinacious"
   • "He was unspeakably pompous... damned insolence... Hugh was becoming an intolerable ass"

8. Richard

   • "He would tell her, in so many words, that he loved her"
     • "But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words"
   • "dependable"
   • "that he should have married Clarissa; a miracle"
   • "bearing his flowers like a weapon"
   • "Happiness is this"

9. Lady Bruton

   • "she should have been a general of dragoons... [Richard] had the greatest respect for her"
   • "She had perhaps lost her sense of proportion"
   • "she used to feel the futility of her own woman-hood as she felt it on no other occasion"
   • "Power was hers, position, income"

10. Elizabeth

    • "she had become very serious; like a hyacinth sheathed in glossy green"
    • "So she might be a doctor"
    • "she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting"
    • "She was delighted to be free... Calmly and competently, Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster omnibus"

11. Miss Kilman

    • "they turned her out because she would not pretend that the Germans were all villains"
    • "whenever the hot and painful feelings boiled within her... she thought of God"
    • "Miss Kilman squashed the flowers all in a bunch"
    • "she made one feel so small"
    • "it was so rough the approach to her God - so tough her desires"

12. Clarissa

    • "cutting [people] up and sticking them together again"
    • "not that she was weak, but she wanted support"
    • "What she like was simply life"
    • "they're an offering"

13. "first bunched together; now of their own accord starting apart"

    • "the only flowers she could bear to see cut"

14. Conversion tries "to stamp indelibly in the sanctuaries of others the image of herself"

15. "Peter had been in love; been rejected; gone to India; come a cropper; made a mess of things"

16. "And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect"

17. "Men killed in battle were thus saluted, and Septimus had been through the War"