Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mrs Dalloway
- Characters
- Septimus Smith
- Represents the horrors of WWI
- Obsession with
dead Evans
- Fails to sleep with Lucrezia - Homoerotic?
- Rejects the modern
world as a sham
- Throws himself into
the public sphere
- Mrs Clarissa
Dalloway
- In love with Sally
Seton
- Treats the death of
Septimus as a beautiful
act
- Hosts parties as a way of giving people pleasure
- Sir William Bradshaw
- Believes Septimus is failing to live in 'proportion'
- Brashaw - The Victorian Railway Guide.
Reliability. Authority.
- Shouts "The Coward!" as Septimus jumps to his death.
- Peter Walsh
- Returns to London to obtain divorce for Indian
lover
- Old love interest of
Clarissa
- Amazed by the modern London, although fails
to fit in
- Themes
- Technology & Modernity (Omnibus,
Ambulance, Car)
- Rejection of the modern
public sphere
- Women & Sexuality - Miss Dalloway as the new Modern
woman (Omnibus escape)
- The Imperial Flaneur - Peter Walsh. Attempts to recolonize London