represent constituents of a sentence. Then the functions of the major word classes will be described and a distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed is an extract from the novel To the Lighthouse‚ by Virginia Woolf. The text is therefore narrative. The literary technique used in this text is very rare‚ it is known as the stream-ofconsciousness. This suggests that most of it is written as an unbroken flow of perceptions‚ thoughts and feelings. What is written
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In Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own‚ Woolf states that Carmichael has gained an advantage that many women lacked: the ability to separate herself from the issues of gender‚ and to be able to write freely‚ instead of trying to fit the mold provided . There are so many aspects of the world that are designed to hinder people‚ in some way or another; if not gender‚ race‚ physical and mental abilities. When one becomes consumed into the expectations of their category‚ it can cause paranoia towards
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The physical and social setting in "Mrs. Dalloway" sets the mood for the novel’s principal theme: the theme of social oppression. Social oppression was shown in two ways: the oppression of women as English society returned to its traditional norms and customs after the war‚ and the oppression of the hard realities of life‚ "concealing" these realities with the elegance of English society. This paper discusses the purpose of the city in mirroring the theme of social oppression‚ focusing on issues
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More often than we would prefer‚ we are inclined to forget the significances of the events and experiences of our past - such is only human‚ if we fail to record our incidents. However‚ this is far from the case for expressive memoir author Virginia Woolf‚ whose afternoon sailing one day had impacted her for life. There are several descriptions‚ allusions‚ and idiomatic phrases in the reminiscent passage which harken back to the significance of Woolf’s undertakings as depicted. Specifically‚ those
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In what ways‚ and how successfully‚ does Mrs Dalloway illustrate Woolf’s intention to use her novel to ‘criticise the social system‚ and to show it at work‚ at its most intense’? (Woolf‚ A Writers Diary‚ 1923) Woolf’s novel is a critique of post war society to the very fabric of its pages. She uses a variety of tools such as the varying perspectives of characters‚ which after the First World War‚ have come to see how fatally flawed the British Empire is. There are those who outwardly champion
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Virginia Woolf: Simplistic Vs. Innovator Virginia Woolf is recognized as one of the most adamant novelists’ and greatest innovators of modern fiction. Her expertise with point of view and her use of stream of consciousness have influenced many writers after her. Woolf based her literary traditions and writings on her education and upbringing. Her views of the gender roles in her Victorian childhood and her ideas in contemporary society influenced her writing greatly. Both Woolf’s novels and her
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Mrs Dalloway Pages 49-53 1. How does Virginia Woolf use “little Elsie Mitchell” to move from Peter’s thoughts to Lucrezia’s? We move from Peter’s thoughts of how the park had “changed very little since he was a boy” and observing what was happening in the park‚ to Lucrezia’s thoughts‚ when we are told through Peter’s thoughts that “Little Elsie Mitchell” had run into her legs and fallen over. We are then told through Lucrezia’s thoughts that she is worried about her husband‚ “she was
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Although the entire novel tells of only one day‚ Virginia Woolf covers a lifetime in her enlightening novel of the mystery of the human personality. The delicate Clarissa Dalloway‚ a disciplined English lady‚ provides the perfect contrast to Septimus Warren Smith‚ an insane ex-soldier living in chaos. The reader also learns of Clarissa Dalloway through the thoughts of other characters‚ such as her old passion Peter Walsh‚ her husband Richard‚ and her daughter Elizabeth. Septimus Warren Smith‚ driven
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minister in Mrs. Dalloway embodies England’s old values and hierarchical social system‚ which are in decline. When Peter Walsh wants to insult Clarissa and suggest she will sell out and become a society hostess‚ he says she will marry a prime minister. When Lady Bruton‚ a champion of English tradition‚ wants to compliment Hugh‚ she calls him “My Prime Minister.” The prime minister is a figure from the old establishment‚ which Clarissa and Septimus are struggling against. Mrs. Dalloway takes place
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with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. In literature‚ the movement is associated with the works of (among others) Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B. Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and Franz Kafka. In their attempt to throw off the 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
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