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MRS DALLOWAY, Clarissa and Septimus from Mrs Dalloway - Coggle Diagram
MRS DALLOWAY
Time: a single day in London
Structure: plotless, real story is through character's mind
Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman, is preparing for a party she is hosting that evening
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The Big Ben
acts like a structural tool marking the passage of time, shifting the narrative between inner to external world
Characters
Clarissa: 51, upper class, struggles with failure and depression thogh she represent the "ordered" world
Septimus Smith: veteran suffering from shell-shook represents the "desordered world" and the trauma of war
They are doubles, never meet but lives run parallel While Clarissa chooses to go on with her life, Septimus chooses suicide
Runnelling Technique: digging into the charcter's past creating tunnels to connect their stories to the present
Moments of being: rare moments of intense awareness and insight that stand from the "non-being" daily routine
Woolf vs Joyce
Joyce: raw sometimes chaotic stream of consciousness Woolf: mantains logical and grammatical organisation more poetic and allusive style
Clarissa sees his death like an act of communication and a way to preserve his soul she doesn't pity Septimus, she understands him
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