Wednesday, December 10, 2008
mrs dalloway
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that is prevalent with themes and different scenes that further portray them. Themes that are commonly go noticed in the pages of this novel are love and religion, madness versus proportion, and subjective versus objective experience of time. The theme of “death” was best exemplified in the scene in which Septimus commits suicide. This scene in which has been chosen to be examined is one filled with shadowy and gloom traits. It starts with him and his wife enjoying a day at the park and later goes on to have a horrible event happen, Septimus throwing himself from a window.
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This post, as brief as it is, starts off throwing a pretty wide (too wide?) net. I'm glad you narrow things down to Septimus' suicide. Read the passage (it's a long one--ten pages or so) over a few times if you haven't already, and search for those words and phrases that will provide you a 'hook' on which to hang all this wide-ranging analysis).
Have some fun with this! (But don't let yourself lapse into overly generalized observations).
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