Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. ... For instance, Virginia Woolf did so with the narrative style in order to achieve the earlier mentioned phenomenon, namely to put the reader in a situation related to real life. ... Virginia Woolf described this process as follows: "I dig beautiful caves behind my characters". The caves are the characters´ inside of the mind which is only hard to assess for the reader, so the tunnels serve insofar as they shed some light upon the cave. ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Virginia agrees to return to the house with him only if he agrees to discuss moving back to London with her. ... This event is also Virginia's response to these feelings. ...

• Word Count: 3710
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the social circle examined by Woolf. ... Woolf's comparison of the sane and insane as an advanced social commentary is superb. ... But He...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School