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Mrs. Dalloway
CHARACTERS
PETER WALSH: He is a close friend of Clarissa and enjoys travelling. He is currently in love with Daisy, a married woman in India. The day of the novel he returns to London and visits Clarissa ( there is still an intensity between them)
LUCREZIA WARREN SMITH:Septimus' wife, Lucrezia lived in Italy before getting married. She is young but became seriously humiliated and sad when Septimus started slipping into insanity.
SEPTIMUS WARREN SMITH:
-he is a poet and lover of Shakespeare and when The war broke out he enlisted for patriotic reasons.He suffers from "shell shock". After war he regards human nature as evil and believes he is guilty of not being able to feel.
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CLARISSA DALLOWAY:
-she is a London society lady of 51 who married Richard Dalloway, a man with extremely conventional view on politic and women's rights.
Mrs, Dalloway always worries about appearances and she is characterised by opposing feelings
SALLY SETON: she is a friend of Clarissa and Peter; she is rebellious and, in the past, she was attracted by Mrs. Dalloway
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SETTING
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Virginia Woolf uses the tunnelling technique, that allows the reader to experience the character's recollection of their past and thus providing a sense of their background and personal history
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PLOT
An old friend, Peter Walsh drops by her house unexpectecdly. Years earlier, Clarissa refused Peter's marriage proposal and she married Richard Dalloway.
The point shifts to Septimus, a veteran of World War I who suffers from a "shell shock". He spends the day in the park with his Italian-born wife Lucrezia. Their are waiting for Septimus appointment with Sir William Bradshaw, a psychiatrist.
Clarissa Dalloway, an upper class housewife, goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening.
Sir William plans to send him to a mental institution in the country, so Septimus committs suicide by jumping out of a window.
Clarissa's party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended also by people from her past like Peter Walsh and her close female friend, Sally Seton. Clarissa hears also about Septimus's suicide.
THEMES
THE PASSING OF TIME
The concept of death and its fear are closely related to the concept of time ( in the novel is often marked by the sound of Big Ben . The insistent chiming of clock reminds the passing of time in life and its flowing into death
THE THREAT OF OPPRESSION
Oppression is a constant threat to Clarissa and Septimus. It appears in many forms (religion, science or social conventions)