Themes

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AS levels Z - English AS (Mrs Dalloway) Mindmap am Themes, erstellt von Izzy Simmons am 30/04/2013.
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Themes
  1. 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"
    1. Clarissa
      1. 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"
        1. 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" 
        2. 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"
          1. 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"
          2. 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"
            1. Faith in class system

              Anmerkungen:

              • what with "temparory gentlemen" both classes are now seeing possible future. For example, link to Elisabeth
              1. Richard's plan to write a history book
                1. 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"
                2. Fear of death

                  Anmerkungen:

                  • "how it is certain we must die" "to live even one day is dangerous" CHECK
                  1. 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"
                    1. Septimus

                      Anmerkungen:

                      • Chooses death over the terror of living
                      • "Death was defiance"
                      1. 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
                      2. Oppression
                        1. Miss Kilman
                          1. On her

                            Anmerkungen:

                            • Had to leave school because she wouldn't say that all Germans are evil
                            1. From her onto Clarissa

                              Anmerkungen:

                              • Would like to see Clarissa become Christian. Takes Elisabeth away from her
                              • "her enemy"
                            2. William Bradshaw / Dr Holmes

                              Anmerkungen:

                              • See medical profession
                              1. Clarissa supporting class system

                                Anmerkungen:

                                • Suppresses Septimus; in a society where he is trying to conform
                                • "somehow it was her disaster - her disgrace"
                              2. The Establishment and wealth
                                1. The PM

                                  Anmerkungen:

                                  • "the proime ministers kyar" "He looked so ordinary" "this symbol of what they all stood for, English society" Westminster
                                  1. Monarchy

                                    Anmerkungen:

                                    • Buckingham palace
                                    1. 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"
                                    2. The past and change

                                      Anmerkungen:

                                      • "to know... any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places."
                                      1. 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"
                                        1. 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"
                                          1. Elisabeth

                                            Anmerkungen:

                                            • "maybe she would become a doctor"
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