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RMinetto - Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce - Analysis
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The extract, taken from Vriginia Woolf's work Mrs Dalloway, is set at the end of the day and it is about Mrs Dalloway's reaction to the news of Septimus's suicide and her feelings about the sense of life.
The text is divided in seven sequences:
the fist one deals with Clarissa's first reactions to Septimus's suicide. She is annoyed beacuse Sir William Bradshaw spoils the atmosphere of the party and she also imagines the scene of the suicide. In order to make the reader understand her feelings, the narrator adopts the internal monologue.
In the second sequence Mrs Dalloway's inner perception and external perception are presented: while the party is crowded, Mrs Dalloway remembers her youth and thinks about her decision to go on and live because she discovers something important to her. On the countrary Septimus decides to put an end to his life. His suicides is a sign of the impossibility to comunicate, reach a goal and of his loneliness. Death, therefore is like a liberation.
The third sequence deals with Clarissa's vision of pshichiatry. She thinks that psychiatrists are terrible beacause they force the soul and make the patient suffer.
In the fourth sequence there is another consideration about life. Clarissa condisers life as something fearful and terrible, full of difficulties to face. For this reason a person needs someone in which he can find stenght. Clarissa managed to find him but Septimus didn't
In the fith and sixth sequence, life is perceived as something dark. Clarissa sees the relation between her social life and the world outside and between her youth and the present. She realizes that her quiet and simple life makes her very happy.
In the seventh paragrath the view of a old lady who is going to sleep is the expedient for a reflection about time. Time keeps flowing and it does not attend if someone is alive or death.
The novelist uses internal monologue in order to make the reader understand Clarissa's feelings and emotions. Furthermore she builds up sentences with repetitions, similes and alliterations in order to highlight concempts and, in this way, the form refers to the poetical one.
The text is divided in seven sequences:
the fist one deals with Clarissa's first reactions to Septimus's suicide. She is annoyed beacuse Sir William Bradshaw spoils the atmosphere of the party and she also imagines the scene of the suicide. In order to make the reader understand her feelings, the narrator adopts the internal monologue.
In the second sequence Mrs Dalloway's inner perception and external perception are presented: while the party is crowded, Mrs Dalloway remembers her youth and thinks about her decision to go on and live because she discovers something important to her. On the countrary Septimus decides to put an end to his life. His suicides is a sign of the impossibility to comunicate, reach a goal and of his loneliness. Death, therefore is like a liberation.
The third sequence deals with Clarissa's vision of pshichiatry. She thinks that psychiatrists are terrible beacause they force the soul and make the patient suffer.
In the fourth sequence there is another consideration about life. Clarissa condisers life as something fearful and terrible, full of difficulties to face. For this reason a person needs someone in which he can find stenght. Clarissa managed to find him but Septimus didn't
In the fith and sixth sequence, life is perceived as something dark. Clarissa sees the relation between her social life and the world outside and between her youth and the present. She realizes that her quiet and simple life makes her very happy.
In the seventh paragrath the view of a old lady who is going to sleep is the expedient for a reflection about time. Time keeps flowing and it does not attend if someone is alive or death.
The novelist uses internal monologue in order to make the reader understand Clarissa's feelings and emotions. Furthermore she builds up sentences with repetitions, similes and alliterations in order to highlight concempts and, in this way, the form refers to the poetical one.