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Virginia Woolf Part 1, An Experimental Novel:, Style - Coggle Diagram
Virginia Woolf Part 1
She was born in London 1882 she dies in 1941 attemptin suicide
doesn't go to University but is surrounded by intelectuals and artists
After her mother's death she has a mental breakdown
1904 she moves to Bloomsbury: whwrw she founded The Bloomsbury Group: of Artists
1912 she married Leonard Woolf and founded Harrington Press
Main Works
Woolf's Novels are like
Mental Voyages focusing on the contrast between Internal and External Reality
Mrs Dallaway (1925)
Plot
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Novel is named after its female protagonist Clarissa Dalloway
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An Experimental Novel:
Woolf deliberatly choses to focus on one single character: Mrs Clarissa Dallawoy
In one single day: a Wednesday in June in one single place: London
Radical shift from tradition of Victorian Literature and underlines the idea that even the most ordinary character on the most ordinary day can be the subject of a writer's scrutiny
Woolf's interest is in the
Workings of the Mind
Mrs Dalloway abandonds the traditionally-structured plot of Victorian novels
in favour of a more Experimental Approach to writing
All actions are logically rationally connected with one another
In Mrs Dalloway on the contrary actions are fragmented and disconected
What gives unity to the novel is the Coherence of the Mind
The Contrast between Subjective and Objective Time
Importance of Subjective Time in contrast with Objective Time
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Also Woolf uses The Stream of Consciousness
Woolf prefers to show her characters thoughts in a more controlled and organised way
Uses 3° person impersonal Omniscent Narrator
Style
No traditional plot or style
use of
Interior Monologue to render workings of the minds of the characters
preference for a poetic lyrical style
frequent use of symbols
Themes
Moments of being
Moment in which a
certain spiritual truth is reveald
Womanhood
The Passing of Time
difference between Subjective and Objective Time