“Mrs. Dalloway”: Symbol of Contrast between Virginia Woolf and Society

Аннотация

Woolf said about writing Mrs Dalloway that she wanted to ‘criticise the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense’. Woolf forms a social and political critique of her time through the course of an average day in the life of high society woman, Clarissa Dalloway. She uses her characters to make a social point, through the ways in which they interact with others in her narrative. The structure of the novel itself, is Woolf’s strongest tool. Her modernist stream of consciousness style allows the reader a deeper look into her characters and simultaneously defamiliarizes the reader to every day assumptions.