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    Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Practicas 3a

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    Mrs. Dalloway feels responsible for the suicide of Septimus Warren and is overwhelmed with guilt for hosting a fancy party while others face real problems. She thinks back to her simpler childhood in Burton where she felt braver and wanted more from life than just throwing parties. While she is grateful to her husband Richard for supporting her and helping her gain status in society by hosting these events, she questions if this is all there is to her life. The third person narrator is able to get inside Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts and show how she believes her duty is to organize parties rather than think about upsetting topics, as was expected of women at the time. The fragment exemplifies modernist literature by focusing on the characters

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    Mrs. Dalloway feels responsible for the suicide of Septimus Warren and is overwhelmed with guilt for hosting a fancy party while others face real problems. She thinks back to her simpler childhood in Burton where she felt braver and wanted more from life than just throwing parties. While she is grateful to her husband Richard for supporting her and helping her gain status in society by hosting these events, she questions if this is all there is to her life. The third person narrator is able to get inside Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts and show how she believes her duty is to organize parties rather than think about upsetting topics, as was expected of women at the time. The fragment exemplifies modernist literature by focusing on the characters

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    Mrs. Dalloway feels responsible for the suicide of Septimus Warren and is overwhelmed with guilt for hosting a fancy party while others face real problems. She thinks back to her simpler childhood in Burton where she felt braver and wanted more from life than just throwing parties. While she is grateful to her husband Richard for supporting her and helping her gain status in society by hosting these events, she questions if this is all there is to her life. The third person narrator is able to get inside Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts and show how she believes her duty is to organize parties rather than think about upsetting topics, as was expected of women at the time. The fragment exemplifies modernist literature by focusing on the characters

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    Mrs.

    Dalloway Virginia Woolf


    Practicas 3a

    The presented fragment is an episode comprising Mrs. Dalloways
    reaction to hearing the news of Septimus Warrens suicide. Mrs. Dalloway feels
    herself responsible for the young man who has chosen to put an end to his life. Her
    guilt goes beyond limits as she despises herself for standing at her fancy party
    while other people face real life problems. The tumultuous thoughts make her think
    instantly about the place where she grew up, Burton, where life was simpler and
    when she had the courage to want more from life, from her own, than just throwing
    parties for people she didnt quite understood.

    Even though, she remembers that her happiness now is due to Richard,
    her husband, the man who always stood by her side no matter the circumstances. It
    is grace to him she is now somebody important in society, an admired woman for
    her grace and for her talent to comprise so many different characters, for one time
    a year in a room perfectly decorated with the most astonishing flowers and
    silverware.

    The 3
    rd
    person narrator is able to describe concisely the feelings of
    Mrs. Dalloway, using its omniscient narrative voice. Thus the reader is introduced
    to a closer view of the characters thoughts and attitude regarding her life within
    the rich middle class. A respectable woman in that times society must not think
    out loud, that being considered, still, a mans job. That is why Mrs. Dalloway
    believes that her duty is to organize attractive parties, to be the perfect host and not
    to think about themes such as that young mans death.

    Modernism implies a break from the tradition. It refers to some sort of
    discontinuity, treating characters as 'thinking' individuals, emphasizing the
    unconscious rather than the outer, visible self; plot is more of a collection of
    incidents and their effect on the individual than the advance towards crisis and its
    resolution; imagination and internal thought processes form the substance of the
    literary work characterized as 'modern'
    The fragment stands for a good example of modern text proven by the
    lack of action, as the traditional novels presented. The emotions of the characters,
    their thoughts seem to be more important than their actions because t is considered
    that the action itself must be triggered from an intense state of mind, a thought or
    an impulse. Also, the fact that the narrator takes a step back from the original
    position, that of a narrator which describes objectively the characters, the setting,
    using its own voice, and now everything seems to be narrated from one characters
    point of view. He fact that the action is not organized chronologically stands for
    another trait of a modern text, category which best describes Virginia Woolfs
    novel. The life of the characters is presented in a relative connection with the main
    characters, Clarissa Dalloway, memories of her youth, situations of her life and or
    the thoughts of the novels nowadays woman.

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