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VIRGINIA WOLF - Coggle Diagram
VIRGINIA WOLF
LIFE
Born in 1882 and grow in a literary and intellectual atmospher (she didn't study at school but she study greek literature and from her father books)
after the death of her mother she get her first mental breackdown (she will always suffer of a gradually mental hilness)
after the death of the father she can start a new life where she can express her literary career -> she and her sister become a member of the Bloomsbury Group that was a group of thinkers and artist that didn't accepts the Victorian ideals and tradition. They were famous for their sexual pratic, anti-war mind and socialism
in 1912 she merried Leonard Woolf but after that her mental hilness become worst (she tried to kill herself)
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MRS DALLOWAY
Plot
In a normal mourning Clarissa Dallowey goes to takes some flowers for her party. there she sees Septimum. he has to go in a mental clinic where in the afternoon he decides to suicide. At the party the therapist of the guy is there and tell the story to Clasissa that feels strong connection whit the boy
Characters
the main characters are:
- Clarissa Dalloway, she is a old woman, her story is signed from the sofference. she is a woman divided between the feeling of freedom and the class conscusness
- Septimus, he his a veteran of the IWW hat suffered about mental hilness (he is a Shell-socked case, a victim of the industry war), he is socked about the death of his best firend and for his too big sadness he decides to kill himself
THEM ARE THE DUOBLE FACE OF THE PERSONALITY OF VIRGINIA HERSELF
other characters are:
- Lucrezia, Sptimus wife
- Sir Brandshaw, the doctor of Septimus
- Piter Walsh, an old lover of Clarissa
Style
She is really similar to Joyce but she give less importace to the single words and she never let her character thouths whitout control
Themes
- how people react to big transformation (in her period there were lots of big changes)
- passing of time and so passing of life
MODERNIST NOVEL
She gives voice to the complex inner world of feelings, she think that the human personality is the continuos shift from impression and emotion
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
the story is divided in 3 parts
- during a normal day one of the child ask for to go to the lighthouse. mum sad yes and dad sad no. this episode is usefull for describe the dinamicus in the family
- is passes 10 years: mum and 2 brother are death
- the rest of the family gose to the lighthouse for a trip
in her works the story is not important, the important things are the psicological and psycological aspects of the charactesr