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VIRGINIA WOOLF
(1882 - 1941)
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VIRGINIA WOOLF

(1882 - 1941)

LIFE

  • Born in London in 1882
  • (^) Her father Leslie Stephen was a Victorian man of letters
  • (^) She grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere
  • (^) Her mother’s death and sexual abuse  depression

LITERARY CAREER

The Voyage Out (1915)  Traditional narrative

Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse

(1927) stream of consciousness tecnique

Orlando (1928)

A Room of One’s Own (1929)  great impact on the

feminist movement of the 1960sand 1970s

The Waves (1931)

A MODERNIST NOVELIST

  • (^) Aim = to give voice to the complex inner world of feeling and memory.
  • (^) The human personality = a continuous shift of impressions and emotions.
  • (^) Omniscient narrator disappeared
  • (^) The point of view shifted inside the different characters’ minds  Flashbacks, assosiations of ideas, momentary impressions presented as a continuous flux.

Mrs Dalloway – Characters

  • (^) They all belong to the upper-middle class.
  • (^) Clarissa is the wife of a Conservative MP, Richard Dalloway.
  • (^) She experienced the influence of a possessive father and the frustration of a genuine love.
  • (^) She is characterised by opposing feelings : **1. Her need for freedom and independence
  1. Her class consciousness**

Mrs Dalloway – Characters

  • (^) Septimus Warren Smith is a «shell-shocked».
  • (^) He is haunted by the spectre of Evans
  • (^) He can’t stand the idea of having a child, he is sexually impotent.
  • (^) He jumps out of the window of his room before the party.
  • (^) Lucrezia Warren Smith
  • (^) Sir William Bradshaw is a famous nerve specialist.
  • (^) Peter Walsh , the man she used to love in her youth.

Mrs Dalloway – Style

  • (^) Stream of consciousness technique
  • (^) Virginia Woolf never lets her characters’ toughts flow without control
  • (^) Her technique is based on the fusion of streams of toughts into a third-person , past tense narrative.