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THE MRS. DALLOWAY, CHARACTERS:, THEMES:, STYLE:, PLOT:, Clarissa Dalloway,…
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THEMES:
Changes in the social life of the time (spread of newspapers, increading use of cars and planes, success of the cinema, changes in marital relationships)
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STYLE:
Virginia maintains logical and grammatical organisation, she never lets her characters' thoughts flow without control.
She uses the technique of streams of thought into a third-person, past tense narrative.
Epiphanies: moments of being, rare occasions of insight during the characters' daily life when they can see reality behind appearances.
PLOT:
During a day of June in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway organises a party for that evening. In the meantime, Septimus is visited by a doctor for his mental instability (caused by war). In the end, that same evening, Clarissa discoveres Septimus' suicidal with whom she had a strong connection.
This story is seen from different points of view, starting from Clarissa's flow of thoughts.
Clarissa Dalloway
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Opposing feelings of her class consciousness and her need for indipendence: therefore she imposes herself restrictions on her own feelings.
SETTING:
Mrs. Dalloway takes place on a single ordinary day of June (such as Joyce's Ulysses) in a small area of the city of London.
Septimus Warren Smith
He is a shell-shocked veteran. He is a very sensitive and he's married to Lucrezia (an Italian woman)