Category: Mrs. Dalloway

In Virginia Woolfs novel, Mrs. Dalloway flowers give the reader much insight into the mind of Clarissa Dalloway. She offers flowers human-like characteristics and personas to them. Perhaps it is that she finds it difficult connecting to other individuals, and when she bestows human-like qualities to flowers, she finds comfort in her connection with them…

Through conversations between texts and composers, the construction of texts can be reintroduced across different time periods to display and challenge the values of audiences. This is exemplified through Stephen Daldrys postmodern film, The Hours, which compliments Virginia Woolfs modernist novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to a great extent by offering an adaptation on the novel. Through…

‘Love between man and woman was repulsive to Shakespeare(Woolf 97). Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway in 1925. The Modernist monumental work was written in the wake of the atrocities that happened during the first world war. The story presents the reader with Clarissa Dalloway, a member of Londons high society, who spends a day in…