Virginia Woolf Essays

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Mrs. Dalloway

Throughout the stories of Mrs. Dalloway and The Artificial Silk Girl, both female characters, Clarissa and Doris carry different goals and ambitions regarding the life that they wish to live. Each of their life journeys further defines their...

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf, 20th century English novelist, successfully wrote and developed her stories with some of the most unique writing styles of the time. Through one of her most famous novels, Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf takes the use of symbolism beyond the...

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Mrs. Dalloway

A slim volume seldom exceeding two-hundred pages, a cursory survey of Mrs. Dalloway hardly suggests the astronomical weight of literary and social significance critics have harvested from Woolf’s prose since it’s publication in 1925. At once...

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf grants us an access to a new concept of time in “Mrs. Dalloway”, through which temporality-moment is investigated in two contradictory ways: one is continuous, deadly, dissolving while the other is placid, immortal, infinite; hence...

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Mrs. Dalloway

The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed significant strides in the upheaval of gender bias and patriarchal standards. Women gained many more liberties, such as with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, and the first wave of feminism...

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Mrs. Dalloway

If realism could depict reality in the most truthful manner then the departure from the same in modernism proves the failure of this mode of representation of reality. The age faced loss of faith in religion, principles, ethics, human relations...

12th Grade

Mrs. Dalloway

A comparative study of prescribed texts generates insightful conversations between and within texts. How does the textual conversation between Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Daldry’s The Hours capture the dynamic nature of the individual experience?...

Orlando

So he waited in the darkness. Suddenly he was struck in the face by a blow, soft, yet heavy, on the side of his cheek. So strung with expectation was he, that he started and put his hand to his sword. The blow was repeated a dozen times on...

Orlando

Compared with other literature of the Heian Period, the Torikaebaya Monogatari stands out as an unusual story. The reversal of gender roles that is central to the plot is a narrative device not found among the other surviving monogatari from this...