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Modernist themes and tropes in Mrs Dalloway - Coggle Diagram
Modernist themes and tropes in Mrs Dalloway
Intro
1925 London
5 yrs after WWI
1 day
class structures, politics, lack of support for soldiers
psyc impact
Clarrisa vs septimus
human nature
space vs place
disappointment, hopelessness
Focalization and stream of consciousness
narrative perspective
internally focused
Mrs D = 3rd person
perspectives
multi-perspective narratorial effect
SOC
free association
writing mimics how people think
fleeting, fragmentory
seated at the centre of another mind
leaps in thoughts
Language, signs, and symbols
language is relative
functions and problems
pushes boundaries
eg. sky plane writing
everyone has a different idea about what is being said
modern anxiety about communication
subjective perceptions
Narrative time and space
multiple levels
linear time
Big Ben
chimes, clock bells
interior time shuttles back and forth
Septimus
hallucinates
past and present blur
distorts time linearity
motif
lives + structure
constant movement
morality + regret
spaces + places of London
Modernisation
characters experience it differently
Paranoia, Loneliness, and Alienation Stemming from a Troubled Past
Modernism
paranoia
Septimus Smith’s madness
stability of signs, of meaning, giving way
WWI trauma
painful relationship to history
burdens of communication
Peter Walsh struggles to connect
actions convey key themes
alienation = madness and sanity
Septimus
