"Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death" (Woolf, 184).
Much of this novel talked about how people either lost, wanted, or hated time. In death, people find the end of time, because there is nothing, everything just stops, or at least, everything changes. Whatever happens when we die, it will be different from the lives we lead now. (Edit) Virginia Woolf herself took her own life, and many of her ideas spilled over into her novels. Many of the characters in Mrs. Dalloway wanted an escape, and in death they will find one.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Revolution
" For the great revolution of Mr. Willett's summer time had taken place since Peter Walsh's last visit to England" (Woolf, 161-162).
This is an allusion to the beginning of Daylight Savings Time in England. Willett was the first one to come up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time, right before Peter Walsh returned to England. Peter is wondering around London and realizing how much he has missed while he was in India. (Edit) This is also another way Woolf showed that time was an important element of this novel.
Links:
http://www.myneighbourhood.ca/Content/Daylight.html
This is an allusion to the beginning of Daylight Savings Time in England. Willett was the first one to come up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time, right before Peter Walsh returned to England. Peter is wondering around London and realizing how much he has missed while he was in India. (Edit) This is also another way Woolf showed that time was an important element of this novel.
Links:
http://www.myneighbourhood.ca/Content/Daylight.html
God
"(Edit) This women had taken her daughter from her! She was in touch with invisible presences! Heavy, ugly, commonplace, without kindness or grace, she know the meaning of life" (Woolf, 125).
(Edit) Clarissa is not only jealous of this women because she holds her daughters affection, but because she has something to live for. Although this woman believes in god, it is much easier to be happy when you have something. Clarissa already feels as though she has wasted her life, and it is hard to continue the acts of daily life.
(Edit) Clarissa is not only jealous of this women because she holds her daughters affection, but because she has something to live for. Although this woman believes in god, it is much easier to be happy when you have something. Clarissa already feels as though she has wasted her life, and it is hard to continue the acts of daily life.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
"Times"
"his name at the end of the Times, asking for funds, appealing to the public to protect, to preserve" (Woolf, 103).
The Times was, and is, a famous newspaper publication in London. It is interesting that it should be brought up in Mrs. Dalloway simply because of it's name. In this novel, there is a lot of symbolism to time and its implications. Because of the title of the newspaper, the newspaper is immediately identified with its symbolism. (Edit) This is yet another example of Virginia Woolf filling her novel with the theme of time.
Links:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
The Times was, and is, a famous newspaper publication in London. It is interesting that it should be brought up in Mrs. Dalloway simply because of it's name. In this novel, there is a lot of symbolism to time and its implications. Because of the title of the newspaper, the newspaper is immediately identified with its symbolism. (Edit) This is yet another example of Virginia Woolf filling her novel with the theme of time.
Links:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
"Antony and Cleopatra"
"reflected how she might give him a taste of Antony and Cleopatra and the rest; lent him books wrote him a scrap of letters; and lit him with such fire as burns only once in a lifetime" (Woolf, 85).
Antony and Cleopatra is a Shakespearean novel written around the turn of the sixteenth century. It tells of two lovers who are seperated because of misfortune, and how they still loved eachother until death. This story is parelle to Peter's situation with Clarissa, because although he has ignored his love for her over the years, it was still there.
Links:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/anto/SUM.htm
Antony and Cleopatra is a Shakespearean novel written around the turn of the sixteenth century. It tells of two lovers who are seperated because of misfortune, and how they still loved eachother until death. This story is parelle to Peter's situation with Clarissa, because although he has ignored his love for her over the years, it was still there.
Links:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/anto/SUM.htm
Civilisation
"he, Septimus, was alone, called forth in advance of the mass of men to hear the truth, to learn the meaning, which now at last, after the toils of civilisation-Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, Darwin, and now himself- was to be given whole to..." (Woolf, 67).
Septimus behaves the way he does not because he is ill, but rather because he knows something that mankind has yet to uncover. The truths of life that were found by the Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, and Darwin still elude human kind, and he feels as though it is a useless battle, because the truth will endure, not mankind.
Septimus behaves the way he does not because he is ill, but rather because he knows something that mankind has yet to uncover. The truths of life that were found by the Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, and Darwin still elude human kind, and he feels as though it is a useless battle, because the truth will endure, not mankind.
Regent's Park
"So the elderly nurse knitted over the sleeping baby in Regent's Park"(Woolf, 58)
Regent's Park is a famous park located in London, England. Henry VIII first used this area as a royal hunting ground. Now, the park for its beautiful flower gardens. Because of the flower gardens, the park holds the same symbolism that flowers do in this book. It is also interesting that characters from both narratives have scenes located in Regent's Park. (Edit) Woolf does this to helps draw a connection between the two stories.
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