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Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Outka, “On Seeing Illness: Woolf’s Mrs.…

- - - - Alex Zwerdling, “Mrs. Dalloway’s Social System”
        
        "Virginia Woolf was a prosaic novelist as well as a poetic one, a satirist and social critic as well as a visionary..." Here Zwerdling comments on what I feel is the entire essence of how Woolf makes such a large impact–her ability to occupy multidimensional spaces as a thoughtful creative allows her to impact thought and emotions from all different aspects of her texts, whether it be the characters, plot, style of writing, etc.
      - Stephen Daldry, dir., The Hours
        
        The Hours: The constant sense of unravelling across all three women is compounded by the three spinning timelines. This seems to be a more dramatic take on how Woolf breaks binaries of time in her novels.
  - - - Pandemic
        
        Outka's explorations of how Mrs. Dalloway works as a response to a pandemic intertwines itself into the language, feeling, and emotions of not only Mrs. Dalloway, but also all of London and the external environment.
        
        Mrs. Dalloway: A major reason for Mrs. Dalloway's unhappiness with her external self can likely be because of how her illnesses have shaped her physical self. From the beginning, Mrs. Dalloway is seen on the street as frail and weak, smaller than she was before.
      - World War 1
        
        In To the Lighthouse "Time Passes" demonstrates the historical impact and trauma in how Andrew is killed by an explosion.
    - - Mrs. Dalloway: Stream-of-consciousness was used as a tool to create a type of flattening of the past and present. Memory's constant integration into the narration created a fluidity that allowed the readers to understand intimately Woolf's characters. This is especially prevalent in how we learn about Mrs. Dalloway's past as the present is unfolding. This was a revolutionary aspect of Woolf's literature as a modernist work.
    - - Woolf's exploration of time in the context of humanism and humans creates a body of thought that is revolutionary, one that Wrestling argues is the basis of a human, literary shift that has been occurring for a century. The ideas that Wrestling bring, that Woolf uses physics, irony, and new thought to create a dual narrative, a contrast that works to highlight the inferiority of historical Victorian or philosophical thought and provide an alternative.
        
        Louise Westling, "Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World"
- - - - Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens"
        
        In a reflective combination of Woolf's feminist principles and Walker's own experience as a Black woman, the combination of family, of a matriarch and the following generations being creatively inspired and influenced inspires the current generation to thank those past for the "creative spark" that we have been given
      - The combination of these two texts creates a comprehensive, radical, complete notion of feminism in terms of intellectual, financial, and education equality. The combination of the persuasive, smart argument of A Room of One's Own with the almost dramatic, passionate argument of Three Guineas draws a startling, intense use of radical feminism with Woolf's famous effusive writing.
    - - Three Guineas: The added element of fascism in this extended essay is interesting because it feels as if the stakes are ultimately raised in this. Woolf's feminist thoughts have always been radical and they seem to culminate in the ultimate threat here.
    - - To the Lighthouse Lily as a character stands in opposition to all historical norm and traditional roles. She rejects the idea in its entirety, an impressive display of almost complete isolation from the effect of external pressure, "For at any rate, she said to herself, catching sight of the salt cellar on the pattern, she need not marry, thank Heaven: she need not undergo that degradation. She was saved from that dilution. She would move the tree rather more to the middle."
  - - - Sally Potter, dir., Orlando
        
        In the movie's exploration of gender and its fluidity, the influence of unbounding time really struck me. The idea that the movie was only marked by the transition, the fashion choices and Orlando themself was a continuous constant, one that pushes the idea of a instantaneous present.
    - - "Woolf certainly understood herself to be part of a high modernist rebellion against Victorianism, and she used Orlando to criticize what she saw as
        the usual structure, methodology, and general assumptions of these typical
        Victorian biographies." Micir's argument points here to the heart of Woolf's ability to be an effective social critic, to understand the norms and completely override them in a hilarious, personal novel creates a sense of a success story.
      - In making sex and sexuality a major part of Woolf's biographical writing, she makes a statement about how these normally taboo subjects should be discussed in a more public light, especially by women: this concept being the necessary in writing women into narratives and into history. In this exploration and break from typical literary form, Woolf continues to stride towards a more equal, radical literary future.