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CLARISSA AND SEPTIMUS
(Mrs Dalloway; Virgina Woolf), VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882…
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MRS. DALLOWAY (1925)
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The main character is Clarissa Dalloway, wealthy woman and hostess which spend the day to plan a party to her house. She often recall the time before the Great War and his lover Peter Walsh.
With her, Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked veteran married to Lucrezia an Italian woman.
The climax is Clarissa's Party and at the end the suicide of Septimus is revealed by Dr. Bradshaw.
MRS DALLOWAY
51 yo; she is wife of a Conservative while she was feminist. Clarissa had a possessive father, she is frustrated for a lover making her weak and emotional.
She's depressed with opposing feelings; she wants to be freed but she's living in a well defined social class. At the end of the story she REPRESS HER OWN FEELINGS.
SEPTIMUS
SENSITIVE MAN who loves poetry; he is a shell-shocked case and icon of the industrialised war. He fall frequently in panic attacks, hallucinations and feelings of guilt.
SETTING
Single day in June, in a Small Area of London after the World War I. London is modern thanks to its cars and airplanes.
THE STRIKING OF BIG BEN marks the flow of real time while the inner voice is get flowing.
TUNNELLING TECHNIQUE
Woolf digs into the past of her characters creating contacts to each and other in a specific moment; even if the characters have never meet before.