Here he reflects on his decision to marry, since he married the confident Richard Dalloway instead of the strange but at the same time demanding Peter Walsh. The story begins with Clarissa Dalloway during a day in June 1923, who takes a tour of London in the morning, in order to prepare everything for a party she has at night. In some scenes, several points of view can be detailed, the speech is direct and then indirect and alternates descriptive narratives and comments of an omniscient narrator.
The resource used by Virginia Woolf is to let the character’s consciousness and thoughts flow.
The novel passes from past to present through memories, all of them in a single day of life. The author is a modern woman who manages to narrate Clarissa’s past and her memories through Bourton, where she lived as a young woman before becoming Mrs Dalloway. His narrative is the sequence of a single day in the life of this woman, which takes place in June. The character is like an autobiography of the writer, and the novel can also serve as a theme to talk about colonialism, commercialism and medicine, feminism, bisexuality, and even politics. In a way, it represents the life of the writer who had to fight against a manic depression that made her listen to bird songs, and that would also lead her to a suicide attempt, throwing herself through a window. Virginia Woolf addresses in this book the medical discourse of how Septimus is deteriorating and how it ends up committing suicide. Septimus is the hero who comes with traumas of a war and who arrives to criticize madness and depression. It is a novel that deals with various topics, including feminism and madness, the first of them in the character of Clarissa and the second in Septimus Warren Smith.Ĭlarissa is the character that denotes women, their sexual and economic repression.
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