Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous modernist female British writers of the 20th century. Throughout the years of being an author, she develops an experimental writing style, which is already noticeable in "Mrs Dalloway". This book was published in 1925 by the Hogarth Press, which she founded, together with her husband Leonard Sidney Woolf. "Mrs Dalloway" is based on the two short stories “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and “The Prime Minister” and depicts one day in the life of the fictional protagonists Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, who do not know each other and never actually meet during the day either. Throughout the description of this day, the presence intertwines with the past, with the usage of flashbacks to illustrate memories.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Central Themes
2.1. Disillusionment with the British Empire
2.2. Isolation versus Communication
2.3. Fear of Death
3. Central Motifs and Symbols
3.1. Shakespeare as a central motif
3.2. Symbolic Settings in the novel
3.2.1. London
3.2.2. Nature
3.2.3. Single Rooms
3.3. Symbol of Peter Walsh's pocket knife
3.4. Symbol of Clarissa Dalloway's Dress
3.5. Symbol of the Prime Minister
4. Conclusion
5. Bibliography
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