Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mrs Dalloway
- Based on a single day in June
- focus is to express the inner character not dress etc
- style of writing
- lack of quotation marks blur narrator and character voice
- information about characters through other voices
- the bridge between the ‘impersonal’ voice of the
novel narrator and the subjective interior monologues of the characters.
- style lets the reader make their own judgements
- narrative organised in two ways
- Through the presentation of the flow of thought within the mind of an
individual character
- Through the transition from one thinking consciousness to another.
- Tunnelling
- The past is incorporated into the
present, and, by being translated into the form of memory, becomes an
aspect of present consciousness, just as the e
- Narrative techniques
- stream of conciousness technique
- speaking through the mind of the character
- third person omniscience
- sidewise to characters
- inwards towards memories
- sequence small plot
- plot = party
- squence = events leading up to party
- setting
- London
- concrete
- has structure
- novel themes
- class
- upper class
- lower class observers
- Septimus Warren Smith
- feelings
- nervous breakdown
- alientation
- connects Mrs.D and Sepitmus
- Mrs D. comes to terms with lviing
- Septimus commits suicide
- guilt about surviving