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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 1925.
- Main characters. Clarissa Dalloway, Richard dalloway, Peter Walsh, Septimus Warren Smith and his Italian wife Lucretzia (Rezia)
- Enters the minds of the characters, particularly the diturbed mind of Septimus.
- Notes on novel
- Through stream of consciousness the main character changes, depending on who the writer is focusing on in that particular passage.
- The average person has ... thoughts in any particular day. Woolf shows this by the example in Mrs.Dalloway.
- Septimus Smith , meets his end in the only way that can be imagined, by suicide. Woolf gives an insight into the world and mind of the mentaly disturbed by bring the reader into his world. His fear of the tdoctors holmes and Bradshaw, who he see's as having too much power over him.
- Rezia loves the way Septimus was, but at times wishes he would take his own life because she is also living through his hell, since he returned from the war and the death of his friend Evens.
- After a period of lucidity, in which he and Rezia are very happy, he commits suicide when he hears the doctor coming up the stairs. He jumps from the window enpailing himself on the railings below
- Other Notes.
- Tristram Shandy one of the earliest examples of Stream of Consciousness.
- Modernist poets of the time, 1920s
- T.S. Eliott "The Wasteland" Ezra Pound, John Betjeman. Edith Sitwell. Robert Graves and Stevie Smith(Woman) Not waving but Drowning.
- Tristram Shandy, said by some to be one of the earliest examples of 'Stream of Consciousness' written by Laurence Sterne in 1759. ref University challenge.
- Tristram Shandy, said by some to be one of the earliest examples of 'Stream of Consciousness' written by Laurence Sterne in 1759. ref University challenge.
- T.S. Eliott "The Wasteland" Ezra Pound, John Betjeman. Edith Sitwell. Robert Graves and Stevie Smith(Woman) Not waving but Drowning.
- Peter Walsh, thinking that men over 50, don't need a woman, but only wants them in case someone else would want her (jealousy) At the end of the novel however, he contradicts this when his heart starts pounding, it's because Clarissa has entered the room.
- Clarissa had been and old love of Peter
- Clarissa had been and old love of Peter
- Modernist poets of the time, 1920s
- Sally Seton again makes an appearance in one of Woolf's novels.
- Tristram Shandy one of the earliest examples of Stream of Consciousness.
- Other Notes.
- After a period of lucidity, in which he and Rezia are very happy, he commits suicide when he hears the doctor coming up the stairs. He jumps from the window enpailing himself on the railings below
- Rezia loves the way Septimus was, but at times wishes he would take his own life because she is also living through his hell, since he returned from the war and the death of his friend Evens.
- The average person has ... thoughts in any particular day. Woolf shows this by the example in Mrs.Dalloway.
- Through stream of consciousness the main character changes, depending on who the writer is focusing on in that particular passage.
- Peter Walsh seems to be the only sane person in the novel, even Elizabeth Dalloway's nanny seems to treat her as her own child, and lives only to look after her.
- Notes on novel
- Enters the minds of the characters, particularly the diturbed mind of Septimus.
- Set in London over one day, similar to Ulysses by James Joyce.
- Early 20th cntury, modernist style. includes examples of metafictional form, stream of consciousness, and free indirect and direct discourse.
- Early 20th cntury, modernist style. includes examples of metafictional form, stream of consciousness, and free indirect and direct discourse.
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