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VIRGINIA WOOLF - Coggle Diagram
VIRGINIA WOOLF
1925: she published
Mrs Dalloway
At 10am on Wednesday in June of 1923 Clarissa went to buy some floers for her party. While she was in the shop a car drove noisily and kept the attention of Septimus and his wife Letizia. Clarissa came back home and met Peter Walsh, her ex boyfriend. In the same time Septimus was going to Dr W. Bradshaw for an intereview. Dr Bradshaw said that Septimus had to go in a clinics. At 6pm SEptimus jumped out of his windowand died. During Clarissa's party arrived Dr Bradshaw and broke the news of Seprimus's death.
The novel takes place on a single day in June and followes the characters through a very small area of London. "The tunnelling techniques"= she allows the reader to experience the characters' recollection of their past. Clarissa's party is the climax of the novel.
Subjective reality came to be identified with the "stream-of- consciousness" technique. Virginia never lets her characters' thoughts flow without control, and she mantain s logical and grammatical organisation. Her tecnique is based on the fusion of streams of thought into a third-person, past tense narrative. "Moments of being"= rare occasions of insight during the characters' daily life(similar to Joyce's 'epiphanies').
All the characters belong to the upper-middle class. Clarissa=London society lady characterised by opposing feelings: her need for freedom and her class consciousness. She needs to make her home perfectet to become an ideal human being; Richard Dalloway=has extremely conventional views on politics and womens' rights; Septimus Warren Smith=young poet. He's an extremely sensitive man. During war his bestfriend Evan died. He is a "shell-shock" case. Seprimus is haunted by Evans' spectre. Clarisaa and Seprimus are similar:their response to experience is always given in physical terms and they depend upon their parters
Woolf makes use of some cinematic devices: close-ups, flashbacks and tracking shots. She beats the time using the Big Ben clock. The insistent chiming of clocks reminds the reader of the temporal grid which organises the narrative, of the passing of time in life and of its flowing into death. So life expresses itself in moments of vision which are at the same time objective and yet subjectively creative.
A Modernist novelist
She was interested in giving voice to the complex inner world of feelings and memory
She saw the human personality as a continuous shift of impressions and emotion
Omniscient narrator disappeared
The point of view shifted inside the different character's minds through flashbacks
Virginia Stephen was born il London in 1882
Intellectual family
Father: Victorian man of letters
She studied at home
Access to the family library
Really closed to her sister Vanessa
Her father died in 1904
Virginia and her brothers moved to Bloomsbury, a neighbourhood of central London
Virginia and Vanessa became members of th Bloomsbury Group
the Bloomsbury Group
Concept of traditional morality and Victorian respectability
Rejection of artistic convention
Inluded the avant-garde of early 20th century London
Disdain for bourgeois sexual codes
Leonard Woolf, her future husband, was a member
Anti-war sentiment
Fragmented perspective aesthetics of both Modernism and Poste-Modernism
World War II increased her anxiety
1941: She drowned herself in the River Ouse
Her mother died when she was 13
caused her first nervous breakdown
1929: she wrote
A Room of One's Own
a work of great impact on the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s
1912: Virginia and Leonard got merried
1915: she published her first novel
The Voyage Out
She attempted suicide
When she was little her family used to go in Cornwall on vacation