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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) - Coggle Diagram
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
LIFE
grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere
TRAUMA
death of her mother
1904: moves to Bloomsbury
become member of the BLOOMSBURY GROUP (avant-garde)
she REJECT the artistic convey and the bourgeois sexual codes
1912: merried Leonard Woolf. 1915: started her literary career
IIWW caused her anxiety and fears
she suicide in 1941
LITERARY CAREER
traditional narratives
novel
STREAM OF CONSCIUSNESS technique
feminist writer
A MODERNIST WRITER
MAIN AIM -> give voice to the INNER WORLD
HUMAN PERSONALITY -> impressions and emotions
NARRATOR -> omniscent narrato
POINT OF VIEW -> continuous flux of the inner world of the characters
STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS VS TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE
STREAM-OF-CONSCIUSNESS
Flow of the character's thoughts that reveal the actions and plot
Time follows the course of the character's thoughts
Dramatic monologue and free association
TRADITIONAL TECNIQUE
MRS DALLOWAY
protagonist: CLARISSA DALLOWAY. Is getting ready for the evening party. She is 51, wife of conservative member of parliament
she was influenced by the passive father and the frustration of a genuine love -> this leaked her emotional self
she is characterized by DEPRESSION and OPPOSING FEELINGS (she tries to repress her feelings)
She never loses her awareness of the outside world
SEPTIMUS SMITH: shell-shocked veteran
he have PANIC ATTACKS
His psychic paralysis leads him to suicide
CLIMAX: Clarissa's party. here Dr Bradshaw speaks about Septimus's suicide
SETTING
single ordinary day in June, 5 y after IWW in London
the striking of Big Ben marks the beginning of a new chapter.
TUNNELLING TECHNIQUE
digs into the characters past
tunnels connect at specific moments
MOMENTS OF BEING (like Ephipany in James Joyce)
generate by the changes in the social life of the time
MOMENTO DI CONSAPEVOLEZZA
moments experienced intensely and with awareness