Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Themes and Tropes in Mrs Dalloway - Coggle Diagram
Themes and Tropes in Mrs Dalloway
woolf
novel
1923
5 years after end of world war
period of one day
critique on
class structures
politics
lack of social; support
mirror
Clarissa Dalloway
Septimus
reader
see through the eye of each different character
Mrs Dalloway
characters
tension
hope for the world
third-person narration
Focalisation and Stream of Consciousness
focalisation
perspective
narrative is presented
internally focalised
subjective impressions
limit the narrative
stream-of-consciousness
make us feel ourselves seated at the centre of another mind
mimic the way people's mins do not follow linear pattern
fragmentary chain of thoughts
Semiotics
modernism
language
lens
words we use
things they signify
narrative signs
sky-writing plane
Narrative time and space
multiple levels
multiple striking clock
motif of time
lives of characters
narrative structure of novel
narrative text
characters
places
narrative space
London in 1923
Paranoia, loneliness and alienation
Cultural theorists
modernism
subsequent literary
literary focus
Septimus Smith's madness
theme loneliness and alienation
present character of Clarissa
madness and sanity