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Mrs Dalloway
the main characters
The main character, Clarissa Dalloway, is a wealthy London hostess. She spends her day preparing for her evening party. 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.
The climax is Clarissa’s party: it gathers all the people Clarissa thinks about during the day. It is at the party that Dr Bradshaw, the nerve specialist, speaks about Septimus’s suicide.
characters:
She is 51; the wife of a Conservative MP, Richard Dalloway, who has conventional views on politics and women’s rights.
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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.
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moment of being
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A motif the striking of Big Ben and of clocks in general the passing of life and its flowing into death.
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Clarissa vs Septimus
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She never loses her awareness of the outside world as something external to herself and is ready to go on.
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settings
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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.
the tunnelling technique
Woolf digs into the characters’ past creating tunnels.Through these tunnels they connect at specific moments in the narrative.This gives an idea of their personal history and unites them even though they never meet.