Category: Mrs. Dalloway

In Virginia Woolfs novel, Mrs. Dalloway flowers give the reader much insight into the mind of Clarissa Dalloway. She offers flowers human-like characteristics and personas to them. Perhaps it is that she finds it difficult connecting to other individuals, and when she bestows human-like qualities to flowers, she finds comfort in her connection with them…

Abstract Narration is the common element between image and text. Screen adaptation of novel and epic explores the emotions of peoples in form of moving or motion of images moreover now a days more information related to novel and academic work available on internet. Whereas, literature based upon a lengthy and complex text which evoke…

The early 20th century, the golden era of modernism, was a remarkable time in the history of literary world as this modernist paradigm had brought a radical shift in aesthetic as well as cultural sensibilities in all fronts of life, including in literature. It was not only the sense of war, the economic disruption or…

Introduction Virginia Woolf is a famous modernist English writer and the novel Mrs. Dalloway is one of her most popular works. The novel is based on a modernist writing technique which is known as stream of consciousness. There are throwbacks in the novel which are actually the thoughts of the characters. As we see, two…

In the stream of consciousness, the speaker’s thought processes are more often addressed to oneself, it is primarily a fictional device (Bell, 1990). The representation of the stream of consciousness reflected her need to go beyond the clumsiness of the factual realism in the novel. Mrs. Dalloway is an exploration of consciousness as it portrays…

Through conversations between texts and composers, the construction of texts can be reintroduced across different time periods to display and challenge the values of audiences. This is exemplified through Stephen Daldrys postmodern film, The Hours, which compliments Virginia Woolfs modernist novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to a great extent by offering an adaptation on the novel. Through…

‘Love between man and woman was repulsive to Shakespeare(Woolf 97). Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway in 1925. The Modernist monumental work was written in the wake of the atrocities that happened during the first world war. The story presents the reader with Clarissa Dalloway, a member of Londons high society, who spends a day in…

Through conversations between texts and composers, the construction of texts can be reintroduced across different time periods to display and challenge the values of audiences. This is exemplified through Stephen Daldrys postmodern film, The Hours, which compliments Virginia Woolfs modernist novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to a great extent by offering an adaptation on the novel. Through…

‘Love between man and woman was repulsive to Shakespeare(Woolf 97). Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway in 1925. The Modernist monumental work was written in the wake of the atrocities that happened during the first world war. The story presents the reader with Clarissa Dalloway, a member of Londons high society, who spends a day in…