Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
With a comparison to Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus warren smith. These citizens grow up under the same social institutions and although classes are drawn up on wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the names of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa and Septimus, share the quality of communicating through actions, not words, and perceiving death as "defiance." Through these basic beliefs and mannerisms, Clarissa and Septimus, although never meeting, portray each other in their thoughts and actions. feels death and sorrow all around her. She consistently sees routine and habit around her but seems discontented Clarissa, she was now, "...Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any inside Mrs. Dalloway's soul, lies her belief character, the side that she never reveals. Clarissa expresses her belief in reincarnation. That her inner-communicating self, if not revealed in this body, may be revealed in the next. The belief that herÔ that everything will work out, eventually. Mrs. Dalloway before the party remarks that, 'If it were now to die, 'twere now be most happy.'"(p. 184) Clarissa portrays her sense of happiness as something not monstrumental or grandiose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy in throwing a party. Clarissa has friends. Her parties are to unite the people, who would otherwise never speak to each other. Clarissa communicates ycan, "say things you couldn't say anyhow else." She can her..." Clarissa Dalloway has a sense of optimism mixed with despair, in this she defines her character. sorrow in living within his society. Septimus sees beauty in small inanimate things that surround him. Beauty can be seen as a plane that writes in the sky, deciphered but which signifies beauty. Subconsciously, Septimus reveals his need to be nurtured, "..signalling their