Friday, January 23, 2009
The Hours
"The Hours" is an interesting interpretation of the famous novel "Mrs. Dalloway" with characters such as the author of "Mrs. Dalloway" Virgina Woolf, along with a young woman placed some hundred years later reading the novel as the story proceeds, the other main character is a woman who is referd to as Mrs. Dalloway but in reality just resembles the famous character. I enjoy Michael Cunningham's view on the three women and the interactions made. Although these three women are years apart each has similar insecurities that must be overcome. For instance each is striving for normalcy in their hectic lives, but when you think about it what is normal? Is it mearly impersonating what everyone expects you to be? Or is it more than that? Is it finding who you are in a sea of pretenders? Can it be managed when overbearing men are involved? And arn't normal people simply boring?
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I Believe they are impersonating every one elses lives. It also seems to me that they only care of their own happiness, and are not striving to be "individualistic", or "egocentric". Therefore, I wonder if these characters are at all like the original ones. For instance, Mrs. Dallowy continually struggles for freedom of being completly apart from the world, almost what seems the opposite of what role her character takes on now. As a result, I feel like this book is only contradicting these characters.
Real minor thing, but I ccouldn't help but point it out...the woman reading Mrs. Dalloway is not "some hundred years later" but only about twenty years or so.
Athena,
You raise some interesting questions here about "normalcy"--questions that may, in fact, be central to both Cunningham's and Woolf's novels. But you fail to follow through (this post seems unduly short). Why not pursue your own good observations (that, after all, is the point of this blog--it's supposed to offer a place to explore your reactions, not simply state them).
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