Analysis of the Extract of Virginia Woolf's Novel "Mrs Dalloway"
The text under interpretation is the extract from Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs Dallaway”. Virginia Woolf was born in london at the end of the 19th century, her life wasn’t easy as she lost almost all her family. That caused her several breakdowns and through her works one can see her poor mental state. In some of her novels she moves away from the use of plot and structure to employ stream-of-consciousness to emphasize the psychological aspects of her characters. Themes in her works include gender relations, class hierarchy and the consequences of war. Virginia Woolf's works are often closely linked to the development of feminist criticism, but she was also an important writer in the modernist movement. She revolutionized the novel with stream of consciousness, which allowed her to depict the inner lives of her characters in all too intimate detail. She was among the founders of the Modernist movement which also includes T. S. Eliot, James Joyce. Being a peace of modernism literature, Mrs Dalloway conveys its features. As a literature movement, modernism is seen as a reaction of the emergence of city life as a central force in society. Sense of spiritual loneliness and alienation are portrayed throughout the whole text. Symbolic representation also represent stylistic characteristics of modernism. The subject of suicide enters her stories and essays at times and she disagreed with the perception that it is an act of cowardice and sin. Woolf’s technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue. Woolf is concerned to be one of the most outstanding writers of belles-lettres style. The purpose of the belles-lettres style is to suggest a possible interpretation of the phenomena of life by forcing the reader to see the view point of the writer. The belles-lettres style is individual in essence. Individuality in selecting language means and stylistic devices is one of its most distinctive properties.
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