1. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. ... Virginia Woolf probably is one of the most famous women writers - mostly because of her ability to reflect the inner world of a woman. ... In "The Gender of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. ... Probably it could be said that most of Virginia Woolf's characters are quite unreliable as narrators;...
In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. ... In The Hours, Virginia Woolf begins her day by making the decision not to have a proper breakfast. ... The pain seems to take over Virginia as a person. ... It is this that so prominently displays Virginia's feelings. ... This event is also Virginia's response to these feelings. ...
She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... Woolf's comparison of the sane and insane as an advanced social commentary is superb. ... Young women usually have their hearts broken all the time in Shaw plays. ... Heartbreak House is Shaw's play about the war, even though the war is never mentioned. ...
As shown in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, "The New Dress- by Virginia Woolf, and even my own life, characters' identities are constantly subject to the push and pull of external social influences and the individual's own decisions to re-examine or even reject these influences in order to discover his/her true identity and sense of self. ... Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Mabel Waring, a woman in her forties, struggles with her dependence on society's opinions as well as her sense of self. ...