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MRS DALLOWAY 1922-1924 (Dr. Nicola Wilson) - Coggle…
MRS DALLOWAY
1922-1924
(Dr. Nicola Wilson)
:silhouette: Virginia Woolf's 4th novel
:fountain_pen: published by the
Hogath press
in May 1925
set in
London
:pen:"
She had reached the Park gates. She stood for a moment, looking at the
omnibuses
in Piccadilly.(...)as she watched the
taxi cabs
"
presence of omnibuses and taxi cabs symbols of
freedom
and
modernity
a changing society after war
the characters' routes through the streets of London intersect
:pen: "
She
sliced
like a
knife
through everything
."
precision
and
certainty
on feeling
:silhouettes: connection with
Peter Walsh
and his disturbing habit of playing with a knife
:pen: "
She had a perpetual sense...of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very
dangerous to live even one day
"
a worring image of
inadequacy
and
worthlessness
:silhouettes: implicit link to
Septimus
, they share similar worries
study of the sane and the insane
:pen: "
She would not say of Peter,
she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that
"
rejection of
binary logic
and proportion
:red_cross:no singular selves determined, classified and labeled
:!: critique of the medical establishment (William Bradshaw)
:check: selves composed of different facets, identity is fluid
questions about identity and how mind works
:!: a challenge to the conventional novel made of plot, reason, external things