In reading the two novels, Sula and Mrs. Dalloway the antiwar sentiments created by the authors display the injustices of war. The two novels stage the loss of a female friendship as well as a shell-shocked warrior whose fragmented consciousness expressed the brutalities of war. In Toni Morrison's novel Sula, she uses characters similarities and differences that they might share in personalities. Morrison uses different characters to confronting issues of identity belonging and experiences of life. The two characters that reflect the sentiments of antiwar aspects are, Shadrock and Sula. In Mrs. Dolloway the two characters that Virginia Woolfe uses are Clarissa Dolloway and Septimus. This paper will identify the characters used in both novels to show the antiwar sentiments.
Sula developed into a woman of free spirit, free will, and a desire to roam around and see things beyond the bottom. She wanted to be "free of the possibility of destruction" (pg 148 Sula). This was something in which she shared with Shadrock. As an adult woman Sula went to college and experienced new things to see how different the world was. When she returned, people said she had "no speck around which to grow. She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed no desire to command attention or compliments - she had no ego" (Morrison 2046) Shadrock was similar. He went of to war for a period of his life to seek a new experience; something different that was not of his routine. When he returned to the normal society of the bottom in Medallion, Ohio, he was seen as the crazed man of the community. He essentially had a different perspective of life, which was far more obvious and external than Sula's whom had a similar perspective to Shadrock.
The two character's, Sula and Shadrock experiences made the community more aware of the liberalness of the world. The community was not ready for this.
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...
Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. Dalloway, and throws the reader into a storyline consisting of accounts and thoughts of characters. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. ... Such a connecting device is presented when Clarissa Dalloway is at the flower shop, when suddenly a car backfires in front of the flower shop. ... So the car serves as a connection point insofar as the narrator shifts between the minds of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus, allowing the reader an insight of how both of them experience this situation. ...
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...
