1. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
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. ...