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. ...

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