Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Labels

For my analysis of Mrs. Dalloway I'm going to talk about labels. On page eight Woolf starts to talk about how a label doesn't define you. Woolf starts to talk about how Clarrisa is a upper class, party throwing, socialite, but she also starts to get into how Clarrisa is so much more than a socialite, the experiences she had as a young woman with Sally Seaton, and the fact that she decides to mend her own dress, so on and so forth. Also with Septimus, although he is a war vetran so much has happened to him that cannot be labled and yet the Doctor labels him as crazy. Basically Woolf talks about how everyone in the book has some sort of a label and yet they are so much more than that label.

1 comment:

David Lavender said...

This sounds good, but consider refining the term "label" and come at it instead from the perspective of objective versus subjective perceptions of people. In other words, we see the limited, objective physicality of an individual, but don't necessarily have access to the rich, subjective interior life that really determines and 'defines' that person's experience of the world.