A wool in a country can easily be hidden behind the cotton wool for one person, but for Virginia Woolf the experience is very vivid.

Virginia Woolf asserts these moments of being, this flashes of awareness, reveal a pattern hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life and that we “I mean all human beings”- are connected with this; “the all world is a work of art: that we are parts of work of arts”. But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead Virginia Woolf says of all people “we are the words, we are the work of art , we are the music we are the thing itself”. Thus for Virginia Woolf the moment of being is a moment when an individual is fully inconscious of his experience, a moment when he is only aware of himself but catches the glimps of his collection to a larger pattern hidden behind the opaque surface of daily life.

Unlike moments of non-being, when the individual lives and acts without awareness, performing acts as if asleep, the moment of being opens up a hidden reality.

Moments of being can be found throughout Woolf’s fictions…examine examples for her novels, Mrs Dalloway, To the lighthouse and Between the acts. These are often moments of intense, power and beauty.

Unlike Joyce’s ephifanies, these moments do not reveal something important for the character. But they provided moments of energy and awareness that allowed the character who experiences them to see life more clearly and more fully, if only briefly. And some of the characters tries to share the vision that glimps, making the work of art that is life. Mrs Dalloway presents the two characters who are more receptive in all of Virginia Woolf’s fiction: Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa experiences are moments of being while in the middle of what appears to be trivial acts, indicating that it is not the action, but her awareness that sets a moment of being apart from her other experiences. For examples, as Clarissa watches taxi-cabs pass by she finds them “absolutely absorbing”. Her thoughts reveal that “what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab…did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely…or did it not become consouling to believe that some how in the streets of London in the hab and the flow of things here, there, she survived”.

Throughout the day Clarissa is particulary aware of these threads feeling of connection between herself and her sorrowind. Moments of being are marked by particulary vivid and powerful language because they are sact feeling, the language used to convey them, much naturally must be evocative and précised. The form and content must be symmetry. In her moments of being Virginia Woolf uses a language that approaches poetry. clarity is precisely what Virginia Woolf achieves in a moment of being.