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Virginia Woolf is recnonized as one of the great innovators of modern fiction, her experiment with point of view have influenced many writers who have followed her. But one particular intersting tecnique is her use of MOMENT OF BEING.
To wonder why some moments are so powerful and memorale even if the events themself are unimportant that they can be vividly record while other events are easily forgotten.
She concludes that there two kind of experiences: moment of being and moment of not-being.
The writer explaines even if not explicitly what she means by MOMENT OF BEING. She provides examples of this moments and contrast them of what she calls "NOT-BEING".
Moments of notbeings appear to be moments that the individual are not consciously aware of even as she experiences that. She notes that people perform routine and tasks such as walking and shopping without thinking about that.
This part of life is "not lived consciously" but instead is embedded in a "kind of nondescript cotton whool."
It is not the nature of the actions that separated moment of being from moment of not-being. One activity is not intrinsically more mundane or more exstraordinay than the others. Instead it is the intensity of feeling, one's consciousness of the experience that seprataes the two moment. A walk in the country can easily be hidden behind the cottol whool for one person, but for VW the experience is vey vivid. VW asserts that this moments of being, there flashing of awareness, reveal a pattern hidden behind the cotton whool of daily life, and that we, "I mean all human being are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art."
But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead she says of all people,
"We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself"
Thus for Woolf a moment of being is a moment when an individual is fully conscious of his experience, a moment when he is not only aware of himself but catches a glimpse of his connection 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.
To wonder why some moments are so powerful and memorale even if the events themself are unimportant that they can be vividly record while other events are easily forgotten.
She concludes that there two kind of experiences: moment of being and moment of not-being.
The writer explaines even if not explicitly what she means by MOMENT OF BEING. She provides examples of this moments and contrast them of what she calls "NOT-BEING".
Moments of notbeings appear to be moments that the individual are not consciously aware of even as she experiences that. She notes that people perform routine and tasks such as walking and shopping without thinking about that.
This part of life is "not lived consciously" but instead is embedded in a "kind of nondescript cotton whool."
It is not the nature of the actions that separated moment of being from moment of not-being. One activity is not intrinsically more mundane or more exstraordinay than the others. Instead it is the intensity of feeling, one's consciousness of the experience that seprataes the two moment. A walk in the country can easily be hidden behind the cottol whool for one person, but for VW the experience is vey vivid. VW asserts that this moments of being, there flashing of awareness, reveal a pattern hidden behind the cotton whool of daily life, and that we, "I mean all human being are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art."
But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead she says of all people,
"We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself"
Thus for Woolf a moment of being is a moment when an individual is fully conscious of his experience, a moment when he is not only aware of himself but catches a glimpse of his connection 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.