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Alicia DiMatteo
ENG 383
Professor Stephen Barber
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
In the novel Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith, are both struggling to achieve a balance between communication and privacy in their lives through their interactions with others. Clarissa and Septimus are traveling separate roads on their walk through life, and yet inevitably they turn out to be very similar people. They are both of different classes in British society which means that their social interactions would be limited or almost nothing.
Communication enables individuals to relate to others on a deeper level, but it can also result in a loss of privacy. The reader is taken on a journey into the lives and thoughts of many people. The novel gives you the ability to hear and see what may seem like ordinary conversations and interactions between characters, but if looked at with a deeper scope of vision, the opportunity to take a glimpse into their lives is obtained.
Woolf uses this novel to show the reader how time passes on and there is no turning back. No one can change the simple fact that each moment will pass. Memory is such an important thing for this reason because in a sense memory brings us back to reality. Memory can bring sadness or happiness, and then we float back to the present. Memory can also lead to insanity, especially a traumatic memory such as warfare. In the novel windows, curtains, and doors are symbolic, and can enable people to control the amount of privacy and communication in their everyday lives.
In the novel, Septimus and Clarissa are actually similar characters despite their many differences, but Septimus is a confused man who is unable to communicate. Septimus is a man who, because of the war and the death of his friend Evans, lost his ability to feel. With the inability to feel it is not possible for Septimus to be able to...
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