For my Mrs. Dalloway essay I have decided to write on Septimus' suicide. While writing on this passage I was going to try to bring in the similarities between his suicide and Socrates' suicide, and how Virginia Woolf herself committed suicide. For now, however, I am just going to focus on really dealing with the passage itself and the uniqueness of Septimus' suicide compared to how people would normally react.
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A depressing theme, but a good focus nonetheless. Don't overlook the Solitary Traveler's quasi-desire to be "blown away to nothing" or the way in which Clarissa once threw a shilling into the Serpentine (both 'images' of self destruction or throwing something valuable away). I'm interested in the Socrates angle and how you're going to work that in.
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