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The Hours, Mrs. Dalloway, Many works of literature deal with a sense of…
The Hours
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desire to experiment with their sexuality,
longing for someone else (e.g Richard, Sally, Peter)
Virginia and Septimus long for freedom from mental illness (depression and shell-shock respectively); long for escape (suicide)
Clarissa Vaughan has the freedom to be a lesbian, to come and go and live as she likes. Yet she has ended up as a fairly conventional wife and mother.
Laura is unfulfilled in her role as a housewife, she longs for a life outside the domestic realm
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Mrs. Dalloway
textual features
stream of consciousness and interior monologue to focus on characters’ inner lives + long sentences loosely connected by various conjunctions
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Many works of literature deal with a sense of longing. How, and to what effect, have two writers you have studied made use of a sense of longing in their works?