Scarica Riassunto Virginia Wolf e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Virginia Wolf Born in London in 1922, she grew up in an intellectual environment. She was educated at home, but she came into contact with many intellectuals and with her husband, she founded the Bloomsbury group, a group of writers, painters and intellectuals, hostiles to the dominant social values and literary taste. She suffered from periods of depressions after her mother’s death. She has various nervous breakdown. In 1941 she committed suicide drowning herself at the age of 59. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Mrs Dalloway is an upper-class lady preparing a dinner party which many important people will attend. She is married to Richard Dalloway, a member of Parliament. The plot The plot takes place in one single day, in June 1928, from morning to night. The novel begins when Clarissa Dalloway goes out to buy some flowers for a dinner party. During the plot there are many incidents, some minor and some serious, like the suicide of a young veteran, Septimius Warren Smith. During the day Clarissa’s old flame returns and she has a flashback when she was 18 and made the decision to reject Peter Walsh for her actual husband, Richard Dalloway, rejecting a life of originality and choosing one of stability and compromise. Narrative technique In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia uses all the modernist technique. She uses stream of consciousness that is made up of association of ideas or repetitions or key-words to give an obsessive circularity. There is no story line as sequence of events in chronological order. She uses this technique because she is interested in character’s mind, in fact she tells his emotions and thoughts. There is an omniscient narrator who acts as a link. Extract The fresh morning in June reminds Mrs Dalloway of children on the beach. This automatically brings to mind the summerhouse at Bourton and although she is walking down the streets of London, her thoughts are filled with the sea, the flowers and trees. These thoughts instantly call to mind a moment with Peter Walsh, her old flame, when he said something funny referring to cabbages. Mrs Dalloway then realises that he will soon be coming back from India. Style Mrs Dalloway is a revolutionary novel because • There isn’t a story line • There aren’t chapters and the novel is divided in spaces • There are two level of narrator: one is external, about events organized in chronological order and the use of an omniscient narrator; one in internal about thoughts, feeling and emotion of the characters whit the use of association of ideas, repetitions and key words. • She uses the indirect interior monologue (3rd person)
