1. Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway-
The narrator plunges in the mind of Septimus and reports in free indirect discourse the thoughts and feelings of this character towards the scene. ... Virginia Woolf called this method "tunneling process", the various characters´ thoughts of the past, providing the reader with information of a certain character, serve as tunnels to the interiority of this character. ... In this free indirect discourse the reader learns that Clarissa and Peter saw things differently, they argued often. ... In doing so, he takes on the tone and style of the respective character, and is able to express...
The similarities between his work and the previously dominant medium for understanding the past can be assured through linguistic features, such as the use of rhetorical questions, quasi-Homeric discourse, similarities in phraseology [aklea vs. klea andron (¶1.1) or the use of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential stories that the author considers worth telling, though they are not directly relevant to the plot. ... These dramatic scenes of tactical discourse served to portray the dangers of expeditions in an engaging manner. ...