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In one of her essays Virginia Woolf said: ‘' human nature changed''. Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer and the word ‘'modern'' means different or new respect to a tradition. ‘'Modern'' implies change.
To tell the truth at the end of the XIX Century and at the beginning of the XX Century there was the famous ‘'crisis of values'' expressed by Nietzsche, Darwin and Freud but what particularly changed was the concept of Space and Time. Life became faster, you could phone your sister in Africa and Bound Street was full of traffic.
Virginia Woolf searched for a new narrative and a new style that could permit her to convey how a human mind works or better how the human mind perceives the myriad of impressions coming against it.
She needed a narrative that could express her continuous Quệt (‘'And Truth?'', ‘'And Truth?'' in Monday or Tuesday), her vision and the Truth she perceives by intuition.
Her first two novels The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919) were more traditional while in Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927, an Elegy-novel) she developed her own style which is so delicate to express the flow of a consciousness between action and contemplation and so clear to enlight the Moments of Being.
In addition she uses a language (or better she searches for a language) that has the rhythm and imagery of lyrical poetry, indeed she brought poetry into fictional prose.
Her poetic flow implies the perfection of the formal aspect according with O.Wilde's motto ‘'Art is at the same time surface and symbol''.

In her essay The Common Reader (Modern Fiction) Virginia Woolf affirms that life is a ‘'luminous halo'' and not some symmetrically ordered ‘'gig lamps''. While she was watching the work of Perugino in Perugia she asked herself if Beauty or Truth can be conveyed only by symmetrical perfection and order...or not.
So she conceived of the ‘'stream of consciousness'' (word coined by William James) based on free association which breaks the rules of Time (according with Bergson) and let the reader enter the character's mind or better showing as in a movie scene the ‘'ordinary ebb and flow of the mind''.
In Mrs Dalloway the time of the consciousness and the objective time coexist, as the external narrator coexists with Clarissa's stream of consciousness with the shift in the points of view.
In conclusion Woolf's narrative techniques are similar to the ones of the cinema. Flashback is very important because memories (according with Freud's psychoanalysis) allow the narrator to construct with realism and to meet their character deeply. Virginia Woolf called it ‘'the tunneling process''. While writing Mrs Dalloway she was reading Proust's In Search Of Lost Time.