Scarica Virginia Woolf, moment of being, Mrs Dalloway e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. When Virginia was thirteen, the death of her mother and two years later of her sister Stella, provoked her nervous breakdown and her mental instabiliy. She drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941. Readinf Woolf's novels, we notice that the time is dilated and a single moment can last for a very long time.This is achieved throughthe technique known as indirect interior monologue, used to represent the gap between chronological and interior time. Virginia is interested in the impressions of the characters, in other words, in their subjectivity . She is particularly concerned with female subjectivity, which made her a heroine to many feminists. Woolf doesn't use a narrator, who tell us what charactersare thinking and feeling, and instead take the point of view of characters themselves. In Virginia's indirect monologues there is still an occasional presence of a narrator, who gives some order to the character's thoughts. Moment of being The moments of being are the moments of intensity, perception or vision which illuminate our lives.Woolf never explicitly defines what she means by moments of being, in contrast with the moment of non-being. Moment of being can be found in Woolf's fiction, for example To The Lighthouse, Between the Acts and Mrs Dalloway. For Virginia, a moment of being is a moment when an individual is fully conscious of his experience, a moment when he's not only aware of himself, but catches a glimpse of his collection to a large pattern hidden behind the opaque surface of daily life.Unlike, the moment of non-being, when the individual lives and acts without awareness, performing acts as if asleep, the moment of being opens up a hidden reality. Mrs Dalloway The action of Mrs Dalloway is limited to the events of a single day in central London. It opens on a june morning, when Clarissa Dalloway, the 51-year-old wife of a politician, leaves home to buy flowers for the party she has organised for the evening. During the day, Clarissa is captured in her many changing moods and memories. We also see her through the eyes and thoughts of the characters: the man she once loved, Peter Walsh, who returns unexpectedly after a period in India, her old friend Sally Seton, Her daughter Elizabeth and Lady Bruton. Her day is also contrasted with that of Septimus Smith, a disturbed, shell-shocked war veteran. Septimus has been treated fr his nervous disorder by a doctor, Holmes, who understand nothing of his pain, and later by Sir William Bradshaw, an insensitive nerve specialist. At the end of the day the commits suicide by jumping out of the window of his room. News of his death intrudes upon Clarissa's party. Learning about this tragic event, Clarissa reflects on how necessary it is for her that Septimus dies because as he embraces death, she at last can fully embrace life. The novel ends at the party with Clarissa appearing to Peter, who had been looking for her, in all her enigmatic vitality.
