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Virginia Woolf - Coggle Diagram
Virginia Woolf
LIFE
Her father Leslie Stephen was
an eminent Victorian man of letters.
Childhood experiences of death led to depression. (The death of her mother when she was 13.)
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In 1915 she started her literary career as a talented novelist, essayist and critic.
The Second World War increased her anxiety and fears. (she put rocks into her pockets and drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.)
Mrs Dalloway: characters
She is 51; the wife of a Conservative MP, Richard Dalloway, who has conventional views on politics and women’s rights
She experienced
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the frustration of a genuine love, the
need to refuse Peter Walsh, a man who would force her to share everything.
She has a form of depression, characterised by
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WERREN SMITH
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a ‘shell-shock’ case, a victim of
industrialised war
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he can suddenly fall prey to panic
attacks, hallucinations and feelings
of guilt for the death of his best friend
Woolf vs Joyce
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Moments of being
Rare moments of insight during the characters’ daily life when they can see reality behind appearances.
Epiphanies
The sudden spiritual manifestation caused by a trivial gesture, an external object the character is led to a self-realisation about himself / herself.
A MODERNIST WRITER
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The point of view shifted into the minds of the characters through flashbacks, etc.
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Mrs Dalloway
The main character, Clarissa Dalloway, is a wealthy London hostess. She recalls her life before World War I, before her marriage to Richard Dalloway, and her relationship with Peter Walsh.
Septimus Smith is a shell-shocked veteran, one of the first Englishmen to enlist in the war. He is married to Lucrezia, an Italian woman.
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Mrs Dalloway: setting
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The striking of Big Ben marks the
beginning of a new ‘chapter’ or a
turning point in the novel, the flow
from inner to external reality.
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