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MODERNISM -- Hannah Hale - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Writing/Written art -- "The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare" (To the Lighthouse 32) "The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?" (To the Lighthouse 170) "Literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind" (On Being Ill 32) "But knowing that someone has said it before, or said it better, the zest is gone" (On Being Ill 42) "Toth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure" (The Walls Do Not Fall) "If you could not keep track of what was happening you could at least keep track of what was said - in the beginning was the word; and to that it came back in the long run. This went for anything written down" (The Heat of the Day 167)
        
        Beauty/Aesthetic -- "though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her--who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?" (To the Lighthouse 34)
    - - Archive -- "There's next to no critical material" (Autumn 156)
  - - - God/Gods -- "and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself" (To the Lighthouse 72) "Isis, Aset, or Astarte" (The Walls Do Not Fall)
- - - - Can we move on? -- "as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes." (To the Lighthouse 42) "'But, my dear child, use your common sense. It's only by accident we've heard of it. If some one had died there normally—and I can't understand how they keep alive in those poky little holes—we should still be having our party, shouldn't we?' . . . 'You are being very absurd, Laura,' she said coldly. 'People like that don't expect sacrifices from us. And it's not very sympathetic to spoil everybody's enjoyment as you're doing now.'" (The Garden Party 8) "Furthere up the beach there are more people. These people are human, like the ones on the shore, but these are alive. They're under parasols. They are holidaying up the shore from the dead" (Autumn 12)
  - - - Violence -- " When the children saw the blood they were frightenened no longer. They crowded round him and began to scream" (Prelude 26) "A sudden blow" (Leda and the Swan)
        
        Destruction -- "Whatever else may perish and disappear, what lies here is steadfast." (To the Lighthouse 121) "We perished, each alone." (To the Lighthouse 182) "'That course you planted last year in your garden, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?'" (The Waste Land 71-2) "Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, a crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not though death had undone so many" (The Waste Land 60-3) "The demolition of an entire moment" (The Head of the Day 104) "That's the thing about things. They gall apart, always have, always will, it's in their nature" (Autumn 3)
        
        Apocalypse -- "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned" (The Second Coming)
      - Political/Social Crisis
        
        Survival -- "questions - 'Will you fade? Will you perish?' - scarcely disturbed the peace, the indifference, the air of pure integrity, as if the question they asked scarcely needed that they should answer: we remain" (To the Lighthouse 124) "yet the fram held: we passed the flame: we wonder what saved us? what for?" (The Walls Do not Fall) "Still the walls do not fall, I do not know why" (The Walls Do Not Fall)
        
        Freedom -- "'All the same, my dear,' she said surprisingly, 'freedom's best!' (At The Bay 19) "Possibly we will reach haven, heaven" (The Walls Do Not Fall) "'Freedom. Freedom to be what? - the middled, mediocre, damned. Good enough to die for, freedom, for the good reason that it's the very thing which has made it impossible to live, so there's no alternative'" (The Heat of the Day 302)
  - - - Purpose? -- "Why is one sitting here, after all?" (To the Lighthouse 139) "or he might be thinking, I have reached it. I have found it; but he said nothing" (To the Lighthouse 198)
        
        Nothingness -- "So with the lamps all put out, the moon sunk, and a thin rain drumming on the roof a downpouring of immense darkness began. Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood" (to the Lighthouse 120) "For nothing was simply one thing." (To the Lighthouse 178) "Nothing again nothing" (The Waste Land 120) "By every day, every night, existence was being further drained - you, yourself, made conscious of what was happening only by some moment, some meeting such as tonight's" (The Heat of the Day 58) "So, one was once more back where one started - nowhere" (The Heat of the Day 82)
- - - - Exhaustion/Tiredness -- "She became very tired . . . She was tired after the journey and went upstairs to bed ... quite early ..." (The Tiredness of Rosabel 4) "Further and further. Lottie's head wagged; she drooped, she slipped half into Kezia's lap and lay there. But Kezxia could not open her eyes wide enough" (Prelude 5) "'You're asleep.'
        'I don't think I am,' said Constantia. She shut her eyes to make sure. She was." (The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2) "She had by now passed through every zone of fatigue into its inner vaccuum" (The Head of the Day 43) "Daniel will be so asleep that he'll look like he's never going to wake up" (Autumn 29)
        
        Dreams -- "Never to break its sleep any more, to lull it rather more deeply to rest, and whatever the dreamers dreamt holily, dreamt wisely, to confirm--what else was it murmuring--as Lily Briscoe laid her head on the pillow in the clean still room and heard the sea." (To the Lighthouse 136) "Suppose they changed places . . . That was the life" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 3) "'I dreamed about birds last night,' thought Linda. What was it? She had forgotten. But the strangest part of this coming alive of tings was what they did" (Prelude 13) "'To dream of black-beetles drawing a hearse . . . To dream of spiders creeping over you'" (Prelude 28) "But even then . . . "I dreamed I was hanging over a terrifically high cliff, shouting to someone below." (At The Bay 3) "He was given up to his dream. What did garden-parties and baskets andlace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things" (The Garden Part 11-2) "We know their dream; enough
        To know they dreamed and are dead" (Easter, 1916)
    - - Innocence -- "All the same it irritated Andrew that Nancy should be a woman, and Nancy that Andrew should be a man" (To the Lighthouse 73) "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger" (Araby 28)
      - Feeling -> "Childlike Exultation" (To the Lighthouse 10) "Child-like Resentment . . . this delicious emotion, this impure rhapsody if which he was ashamed, but in which he reveled" (To the Lighthouse 24) "She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions (To the Lighthouse 30) "It was a disguise; it was the refuge of a man afraid to own his own feelings" (To the Lighthouse 43) "this was tragedy--not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued." (To the Lighthouse 141) "Her heritage was that tragic optimism, which is all to often the only inheritance of youth" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 4-5) "Laura gave a loud childish sob." (The Garden Party 12) "I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play" (Araby 24)
    - - Interruption -- "And supposing the bell rang in the middle? It might be somebody important—about their mourning. Would they get up reverently and go out, or would they have to wait... in torture?" (The Daughters of the Late Colonel 5) "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME" (The Waste Land 141) "Time had clogged its ticking" (The Heat of the Day 117)
        
        Order/Lack Thereof -- "'Everything depends on so much else"" (The Heat of the Day 48) "in fact, it would always be out of order" (The Heat of the Day 163)
        
        Scale -- "But what after all is one night?" (To the Lighthouse 122) "When she had sat there last ten years ago" (To the Lighthouse 140) "That twenty centuries of stony sleep" (The Second Coming) "The minute merged itself in the immortality of the house" (The Heat of the Day 185) "A minute ago it was June" (Autumn 85)
        
        Fragmentation -- "but Mrs. Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before" (To the Lighthouse 123) "withered stumps of time" (The Waste Land 104) "However, these in their own way recall the past. - Crooked again!" (The Heat of the Day 136) "A fragment of a fragment of a second" (Autumn 111)
        
        Temporal Disruption -- "(for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together)" (To the Lighthouse 128) "For now had come that moment, that hesitation when dawn trembles and night pauses, when if a feather alight in the scale it will be weighed down. One feather, and the house, sinking, falling, would have turned and pitched downwards to the depths of darkness." (To the Lighthouse 133) "Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life--froze it." (To the Lighthouse 169) "It was all in keeping with this silence, this emptiness, and the unreality of the early morning hour." (To the Lighthouse 183) "The reality of the fancy was better than the unreality of the room" (The Heat of the Day 57) "Undoing the reality of the city" (The Heat of the Day 138)
        
        Distance/Nearness -- "Distance had an extraordinary power; they had been swallowed up in it, she felt, they were gone for ever, they had become part of the nature of things." (To the Lighthouse 179) "so much depends, she thought, upon distance: whether people are near us or far from us" (To the Lighthouse 183) "'I like the house immensely and the garden is beautiful, but it feels very far away from everything to me'" (Prelude 15) "The distance she felt between herself and yesterday - and, indeed, between herself and today" (The Heat of the Day 105)
        
        In-Between-ness -- "I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing" (The Waste Land 39-30) "He who was living is now dead We who were living are no dying" (The Waste Land 328-9) "Everything else of his had gone into store, to limbo" (The Heat of the Day 51) "The wall between the living and the loving became less solid as the wall between the living and the dead thinned" (The Heat of the Day 99-100) "Tonight, the safety-curtain between the here and the there had lifted; the breath of danger and sorrow travelled over freely from shore to shore" (The Heat of the Day 139)
        
        Confusion -- "it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself." (To the Lighthouse 129) "Although they were still in the town they were quite lost" (Prelude 5) "Stella woke next morning not knowing where she was, or when. Her place in time had been lost" (The Heat of the Day 196)
        
        Paralysis/Stuck-ness -- "So loveliness reigned and stillness, and together made the shape of loveliness itself, a form from which life had parted" (To the Lighthouse 124) "Yes, everything had come alive down to the minutest, tiniest particle, and she did not feel her bed, she floated, held up in the air. Only she seemed to me listening with her wide open watchful eyes, waiting for someone to come who just did not come, watching for something to happen that just did not happen" (Prelude 13) "Then the cloud sailed away, and the sound of the sea was a vague murmur, as though it waked out of a dark dream. All was still" (At the Bay 29) "Savagely still" (The Waste land 110) "Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms" (Araby 21) "He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal" (Eveline 34) "There came to be something dynamic, as he entered, about her refusal to move at all" (The Heat of the Day 23)
    - - Remembrance -- "What people had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated" (To the Lighthouse 123) "It had seemed so safe, thinking of her. Ghost, air, nothingness, a thing you could play with easily and safely at any time of day or night, she had been that, and then suddenly she put her hand out and wrung the heart thus" (To the Lighthouse 170-1) "Hoping he too might see, and perhaps remember" (The Heat of the Day 372)
      - Loss of/Forgetting -- "The house, the place, the morning, all seemed strangers to her." (To the Lighthouse 139) "A pause. Then Constantia said faintly, "I can't say what I was going to say, Jug, because I've forgotten what it was... that I was going to say.'
        Josephine was silent for a moment. She stared at a big cloud where the sun had been. Then she replied shortly, 'I've forgotten too.'" (The Daughters of the Late Colonel 17) "I forget whether I answered yes or no" (Araby 23) "I must withdraw my statement that I remember everything" (The Heat of the Day 342)
- - - - Reconciliation -- "You live and you learn" (The Heat of the Day 165)
        
        Change -- "All changed, changed utterly" (Easter, 1916)
        
        Transformation -- "He, too, has been changed in his turn,
        Transformed utterly" (Easter, 1916)
  - - - Interiority -- "Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain?" (To the Lighthouse 49)
        
        Mind -- "The doings of the mind; the thoughts that come to it; its noble plans; how it has civilized the universe" (On being Ill 33)
        
        Body -- " The body is a sheet of plain glass through which the should looks straight and clear . . . On the contrary, the very opposite is true . . . " (On being Ill 32)
        
        Anxiety
        
        Disorientation
        
        Sight -- "Such she often felt herself - struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: 'But this is what I see; this is what I see,' and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision to her breast, which a thousand forcers did their best to pluck from her" (To the Lighthouse 17) "But then she did not see it like that" (To the Lighthouse 46) "But it had been seen; it had been taken from her" (To the Lighthouse 51) "To see, however, is not to look" (The Heat of the Day 176)
      - Relationships -- at the very moment when it was painful to be reminded of the inadequacy of human relationships, that the most perfect was flawed" (To the Lighthouse 38) "and of human relations, how flawed they are, how despicable, how self-seeking, at their best" (To the Lighthouse 40)
    - - Class -- "if those slim hands could rest one moment . . . the lunch of that girl!" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 3) "'It is as you always should be,' said Harry, 'with your hands full of violets'" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 3) "Suppose they changed places . . . That was the life" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 3) "Four men in their shirt-sleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. They carried staves covered with rolls of canvas, and they had big tool-bags slung on their backs. They looked impressive. Laura wished now that she had not got the bread-and-butter, but there was nowhere to put it, and she couldn't possibly throw it away" (The Garden Party 1) "But Jose was still more amazed. 'Stop the garden-party? My dear Laura, don't be so absurd. Of course we can't do anything of the kind. Nobody expects us to. Don't be so extravagant.'
        'But we can't possibly have a garden-party with a man dead just outside the front gate.'" (The Garden Party 7)
        
        Unification -- "it was not knowledge but unity that she desired" (To the Lighthouse 49) "'What's the difference? War, if you come to think of it, hasn't started anything that wasn't there already - what it does is, put the other lot of us in the right" (The Heat of the Day 33) "War now made us one big family" (The Heat of the Day 169)
        
        Equalization -- "His soul swooned slowly has he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent go their last end, upon all the living and the dead" (The Dead 225) "Daniel Gluck looks from the death to the life, then back to the death again. The world's sadness" (Autumn 13)
        
        Social Distinction/Separation -- "Strife, divisions, difference of opinion, prejudices twisted into the very fibre of being . . . It seemed to her such nonsense - inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that" (To the Lighthouse 7) "Just one little sheet of glass between her and the great wet world outside!" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 2) "The real Rosabel, the girl crouched on the floor in the dark" (The Tiredness of Rosabel 4) "Oh, Alice was wild. She wasn't one to mind being told, but there was something in the way Miss Beryl had of speaking to her that she couldn't stand . . . But what Alice really hated Miss Beryl for was that she made her feel low" (Prelude 29) "Just to prove how happy she was, just to show the tall fellow how at home she felt, and how she despised stupid conventions, Laura took a big bite of her bread-and-butter as she stared at the little drawing. She felt just like a work-girl." (The Garden Party 2) "Again, how curious, she seemed to be different from them all. To take scraps from their party. Would the poor woman really like that?" (The Garden Party 10) "Lily, he caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet" (The Dead 175)
        
        Government/Nationalism -- "The Law is on the side of the normal" (On Being Ill 43) "No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith for all that is done and said" (Easter, 1916) "'I didn't think you were a West Briton'" (The Dead 188) "out country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should guard so jealously as that of its hospitality" (The Dead 203) "All across the country" (Autumn 59)