Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Themes
- Communication and privacy
Anmerkungen:
- Character's are trying to find outlets for communication, yet also struggle to have privacy.
- "the solitary traveller"
"every one gives up something when they marry"
"are we not all prisoners?... one scratched on the wall"
- Clarissa
- Lonliness in head
Anmerkungen:
- The woman across the street is the human mystery - that they can exist separately. However this independence leads to inevitable loneliness.
- "her attic room"
"far out to sea and alone"
- Her party
Anmerkungen:
- Clarissa throws her party to try and bring people together, to try and give herself a purpose.
"cutting them up and sticking them together again"
- "she would be nothing without her parties" CHECK
"the sheets were clean, tight stretched... narrower and narrower would her bed be"
"to kindle and illuminate"
- Peter
Anmerkungen:
- Communication and privacy is a human impulse
- "in privacy one may do as one chooses"
"their desire, pulsing in them, tugging at them subterraneously, somehow to establish connections"
"our soul... who fish-like inhabits deep seas and... threading her way between the boles of giant weeds... suddenly she shoots to the surface"
"nothing exists outside us except a state of mind"
- Septimus' suicide
Anmerkungen:
- Septimus' suicide is a desperate attempt to communicate with the world, to establish a connection, to have people understand him. He succeeds with Clarissa
- "death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate... there was an embrace in death"
"She walked to the window... she felt somehow very like him"
- War
Anmerkungen:
- "the millions lamented; for ages they had sorrowed"
"This late age of world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears"
"Every one has friends who were killed in the war"
- Faith in class system
Anmerkungen:
- what with "temparory gentlemen" both classes are now seeing possible future. For example, link to Elisabeth
- Richard's plan to write a
history book
- Septimus' shell shock
Anmerkungen:
- "he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion"
"he saw an old woman's head in a fern"
- Fear of death
Anmerkungen:
- "how it is certain we must die"
"to live even one day is dangerous" CHECK
- Big Ben
Anmerkungen:
- Represents time moving on endlessly towards death
- "First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air"
"fear no more the heat of the sun"
- Septimus
Anmerkungen:
- Chooses death over the terror of living
- "Death was defiance"
- In party
Anmerkungen:
- "In the middle of my party, here's death"
"she thought of her mother and tears were brought to her eyes" CHECK
- Oppression
- Miss Kilman
- On her
Anmerkungen:
- Had to leave school because she wouldn't say that all Germans are evil
- From her onto
Clarissa
Anmerkungen:
- Would like to see Clarissa become Christian. Takes Elisabeth away from her
- "her enemy"
- William Bradshaw /
Dr Holmes
Anmerkungen:
- Clarissa
supporting class
system
Anmerkungen:
- Suppresses Septimus; in a society where he is trying to conform
- "somehow it was her disaster - her disgrace"
- The Establishment and wealth
- The PM
Anmerkungen:
- "the proime ministers kyar"
"He looked so ordinary"
"this symbol of what they all stood for, English society"
Westminster
- Monarchy
Anmerkungen:
- Medical profession
Anmerkungen:
- "they hunt in packs"
"He swooped; he devoured"
"life is made intolerable
"Human nature, in short, was on him - the repulsive brute, with the blood-red nostrils"
- The past and change
Anmerkungen:
- "to know... any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places."
- Bourton
Anmerkungen:
- The novel is constantly look back at Bourton to reflect on what could have been
- "at this age they would have been arguing every night"
- New generation
Anmerkungen:
- The war has created a new generation of people with different ideas. They struggle to (LK) communicate with the older, traditional generation
- "people looked different. Newspapers seemed different"
- Elisabeth
Anmerkungen:
- "maybe she would become a doctor"