Does Anyone Really Know What Love Is?.
Dalloway first hit me as being somewhat a boring read, but as I read on I picked up on an interesting concept that involved the idea of love. The word love is used very loosely in this book and in life. Love is a powerful feeling and should be cherished if one has the fortunate opportunity to experience it in all its glory. In Mrs. Dalloway people chose who they think will be a suitable husband instead of actually feeling that sensation of love that makes you join your life eternally with another and have no regrets about your decision.
In Clarissa's life, love seems to have passed her bye. Clarissa has the heart of an interesting and caring man by the name of Peter Wagner. Peter seemed to truly love Clarissa and would do anything for her. He even found beauty in her imperfections. Peter has interests in his own personal character, religious poetry, and people's eternal spirit and these qualities should make Peter appealing to any woman in their right mind. Clarissa made a mistake when she chose to marry the Prime Minister. She realizes this when she finds herself as just a "perfect hostess" to her husband instead of a person he loves unconditionally. I don't feel bad for Clarissa because her views on love are clouded. She speaks of marriage needing silence and independence from one another to work smoothly. On the other hand "with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into" and Clarissa found this "intolerable". If one is truly in love you don't think about needing silence and independence, independence is something you need before you get married to find yourself. In love, you are joined with another till death and are eternally grateful to have that persons love till the end. Clarissa has issues that we are going to see later on in this book and I have a feeling that she attained these qualities from her mother. Clarissa and her mother don't know what true love is.
The names used when referring to Clarissa Dalloway in this novel signifies different things. Mrs. Dalloway is used in the novel to signify a lady of class. Somebody that is distinguished, who has responsibilities and power. It is also used so the reader sees her as Mrs.Dalloway the other half of...
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In Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway, she portrays numerous complicating and intriguing passages in which she presents the readers with many questions and confusing scenarios. One particular section that I feel is very problematic and controversial, but also very interesting, is the passage in w...
Upon viewing "Mrs. Dalloway" I was not impressed. The movie seemed to jump from the present to the past. The character Septimus didn't appear to have any purpose in the storyline. Clarrisa also seemed to be tightly bound by the Victorian lifestyle of the day to make her interesting to me. The plot j...
Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway-. ... And "Mrs Dalloway- is a typical work dealing with women's difference from men. (If we already might go into detailed examples, one such but not the only is Mrs Dalloway's relationship with Sally. When she recalling it, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway admits to herself: "It was not like one's feeling for a man. ... The problem in "Mrs Dalloway- is that actually it is rather hard to state to whom and what belongs the voice of the narrator. ...
1 Everyone passes strangers throughout life. Each stranger has a life completely different than the people we pass each day. But every now and again we are similar in thought. Although we know not what each thinks, our thoughts converge in similar fashions. Whether it be something in the sky...
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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...
Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" is an account of one day in the life of an upper class British woman, her husband, her daughter and her circle of friends. Woolf's narration of Clarissa Dalloway's day begins with her protagonist's preparations for a party she is holding at her house that evening, an...
