Critical Writing Sample “But What Word Was it Writing?”: A Lacanian Reading of Septimus Warren Smith in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway‚ a great deal of attention has been paid by critics to the sexuality in the relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Sally Seton‚ or to the implications of shell shock on Septimus Smith. One critic‚ calling Septimus “Virginia Woolf’s brain-damaged casualty” (Restuccia 46)‚ tries to utilize a Lacanian reading‚ but ultimately applies
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Understanding Lily Understanding Virginia Woolf’s mind within the weaving prose of To the Lighthouse is an undertaking that forces the reader to step back and consider‚ and indeed‚ reconsider everything that has just been read‚ assuming of course‚ that everything within her evolving story is remembered and comprehended. Woolf is known to challenge her readers with her unstructured worldview as to how an individual appears as people perceive the world around them. She uses her novels for more than
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the message behind the novel‚ but many critics believed Virginia Woolf wrote the novel to deal with her own mental illness. In a way‚ the novel was a snippet of the author’s life because Woolf’s doctors did not understand her horror story with depression. The critic David Dowling saw the novel as a masterpiece because of the message of post-traumatic stress disorder‚ and the struggles of veterans back from the war zone. Dowling explained Woolf used the characters‚ Septimus Smith and Peter Walsh‚ to
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representation of women over time‚ and the social isolation faced by those with relatively unknown diseases‚ to highlight his concerns in a 21st century society. Virginia Woolf’s text portrays similar concerns over repression of women and isolation of the sufferers‚ even though it was composed in a vastly different‚ post war society. Woolf criticises the social repression of women through a stream of consciousness mode and language in her novel. This value is a reflection of the post-war‚ androcentric
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February 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 ABSTRACT This study has a two-fold objective: 1) to examine the density and variety of parallelism in Virginia Woolfs landmark novel To the Lighthouse through a sample-based comparison between this novel and other representative modernist novels; 2) to discuss the specific lexical and syntactic structures that characterize WoolFs parallelism. The results are extracted from a corpus-assisted reading and sampled textual analysis of her work. It shows that Woolfian parallelism
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Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours and Postmodern Artistic Re-Presentation MARY JOE HUGHES ow that Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours has been made into a film representing yet another echo of Woolf ’s Mrs. DaUo\va\\ it is worth investigating just how the later novel conceives its relation to its predecessor. Because The Hours directly lakes the role of literature as one of its subjects‚ it may provide a model for considering postmodern artistic representation more generally. Such re-telling or re-presentation
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A Haunted House “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf‚ is a short story that tells the experience of a young couple‚ living in a house with a ghostly couple. The story begins with a “ghostly couple” looking for their treasure‚ in the house they previously lived in while alive. While alive‚ the ghosts lived in the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first‚ this is when the man left her and the house‚ he “went North‚ went East‚ saw the stars turned in the Southern
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criticism that is deconstruction.To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s most widely acclaimed novel.It stands‚firmly and centrally‚in her work and her life‚shedding light on both her past and her future. The body of this paper will be divided into two chapters—part two and part three.In part two ‚ the unification of art and life will be discussed from two approaches—Woolf’s life and her works;Lily and her painting. Virginia Woolf was born on January 25‚ 1882‚ a descendant of one
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old house‚ looking for their "Treasure"‚ the treasure or meaning is revealed to us. The joy and love shared between two people is the treasure‚ the treasure of life. By using irony and stream of consciousness Virginia Woolf is able to reveal the meaning of the story. Virginia Woolf uses a style called the "Stream of Consciousness"‚ revealing the lives of her characters by revealing their thoughts and associations. We learn about the ghosts past by seeing what they thoughts and associated
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providing indications of the overriding fears‚ preoccupations and interests of the character. The ?stream of consciousness? tries to portray the elemental‚ emotional life‚ and the hidden psychological life of the character. In To the Lighthouse‚ Virginia Woolf develops the ?stream of consciousness? technique as a means of exploring the inner lives of her characters‚ and she displays life as an aspect and function of the mind. In To the Lighthouse‚ we find ourselves in a small community of people who
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