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Modernist Themes and Tropes in Mrs.Dalloway …
Modernist Themes and Tropes in Mrs.Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
takes place over a period of one day
Virginia Woolf
set in London
middle of June, 1927
reality permeated with loss and disappointment
hopelessness for future
five years are world war 1
critique on class structures, politics
tensions between world they hope for and the actual world
mirrored effect
Clarissa and Septimus
critique to social structures and human nature
Focalization and Stream of consciousness
free switching between characters
unique
internally focalised narrative
determines and limits what narrative tells reader
third person
dominant
sees through eyes of each different character
focalisation
stream of consciousness
seated centered in another mind
mimic minds do not follow linear patterns
signature narrative style
convey individuals sense impressions and thoughts
flow of free association
perspective through which narrative is presented
semiotics
modernism
increasing interest in language
functions and problems
viewed through lens of semiotics
language
is relative
no direct connection between worlds
questions
push against boundaries of language
example
sky writing plane
modern anxiety over possibility of communication and shared meaning
each person has a different idea of what the plane is spelling out
language signs and symbols
narrative time and space
Narrative Space
characters walk and travel through streets of London
experience hustle and bustle of city
modernization exudes in different ways
Narrative Time
operates at multiple levels
flows between characters and places
abundance of commas, verbs
constant movement
no chapter breaks
real time signaled by multiple striking clock bells
Big Ben
Church bells
Septimus
lost friend in war
past and present swirl into a single time
boundaries between past and present blur
grapples with fragile, hallucinating mental states
paranoia, loneliness and alienation
stemming from troubled past
distinguished between modernism and the subsequent literary, cultural movement
postmodern
mental state character of modernism
modernist literary
paranoia
paranoia
schizophrenia
septimus
trauma
sees trees morph and change
fear that signs mean something other than themselves
loneliness/alienation
Clarissa
madness, sanity
septimus
form of critique of value of war
extreme versions of alienation and social separation
modernist texts
peter struggles to connect with other characters
