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EZambon - 5 B - The Modern Age - text about Mrs Dalloway's extract
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The extract is taken from Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. The story is about a woman, as the reader can imagine, recoveries in seventeen hours of a day in London in 1923. Here is presented the chief novel's character through her action and her thoughts. From the start the narrator says Mrs Dalloway was going to take the flower for a party. Going on the lecture the time dimension is transferred on the past, evoked by the squeaking of hinges, when Mrs Dalloway was eighteen years old. In the past dimension Clarissa's thought goes to Peter Walsh and to him expressions that she does not forget. From the past the narration is re-transported in the present and are described Clarissa's consideration about the moments before Big Bang's strikes and about the life's love feel by all sort of people, while she is walking through Westminster streets.
Right from the start the reader understands the narrator is 3rd person narrator who speaks from Mrs Dalloway's point of view. He adopts the indirect free style because he wants to create the reader to feels himself inside the character's mind. The technique used by V. Woolf is the narrator's eclipse, in which are use small textual connectors, presented (almost difficult to take) but at the same time done invisible by the thought's process of characters.
The language used reminds to poetry language especially in the images about Clarissa's thought. Are used alliteration and images which help the reader understands character's mood.
The reader is accompanied to discover the character with small details (Mrs Dalloway and not only Clarissa, as example) and with memories of its that make the reader's mind opens to every possibility and him curios to go on in the lecture.
Right from the start the reader understands the narrator is 3rd person narrator who speaks from Mrs Dalloway's point of view. He adopts the indirect free style because he wants to create the reader to feels himself inside the character's mind. The technique used by V. Woolf is the narrator's eclipse, in which are use small textual connectors, presented (almost difficult to take) but at the same time done invisible by the thought's process of characters.
The language used reminds to poetry language especially in the images about Clarissa's thought. Are used alliteration and images which help the reader understands character's mood.
The reader is accompanied to discover the character with small details (Mrs Dalloway and not only Clarissa, as example) and with memories of its that make the reader's mind opens to every possibility and him curios to go on in the lecture.