Analysis Of The Concepts: "To The Lighthouse" By Virginia Woolf
Internal/External
By this narrative method Woolf depicts, contrary to traditional narrative method, on the moving female by her literary works. Woolf makes her female world that the faces. The thought that she provides and applies is also in the mind at characters to put on female details. IN Mrs Dalloway, Woolf explores various thoughts and views about women. For that she makes the best application of stream of consciousness. Clarissa is one of the female figures who are artifice by this style. This seems to be in her hidden layers behind the tent that can be brought up to the surface. By this technique Woolf finds out flow in female characters in various activities like to expose internal and external condition of women life.
Clarissa Dalloway is seen as a woman well-adjusted to society. She is an ideal hostess, wife and mother belonging to the middle class. Though this outlook is one she hopes and wants to control. She is fragmented in her internal world. Varying between being Clarissa and being Mrs Dalloway sways between memory and perception between poof and present creating a wave stream of consciousness helps to retrieval from fantasy and really. For one moment she is back in her early life experiencing youth and love is the company of sally Seton she says. ‘’I love walking in London, said Mrs Dalloway Really it better than walking in the country’’She walks and thinks herself. She wonders what life may be had made at young. Besides her emotions sway between longings to disappears from her present life in a passage to depict internal Clarissa on the external. She portrays a composed cold surface. But on the internal her mind works in order to turn away from the repressed passionate feelings of youth, and torment at life that try to escape from her consciousness. This leaves her fragmented, divided between happiness and unhappiness. While her thought go to praising life.
They also expose curiously about death Clarissa imagines of it as a conclusion as well as starting wonders:‘’All this must go on without her: Did she resent it; on did it not Become consoling to believe that The death ended absolutely? But that somehow in the streets All London she survived’’She looks death as reciprocal though still stays in the world. She Clarissa consciousness experiences her way of blending internal and external. Mixing fantasy and reality, By waving in her thoughts, She feels that she is alive and manages to stay. When thinking of life her emotions become physical feelings. “Since she was lying on the sofa, Cloistered, exempt, the presence of This thing which she felt With robes of sound from the Street, sunny, with hot breath Whispering, blowing out the blinds”.
Past/ present
Mrs Dalloway, Clarissa who stays in two times sometimes she lies in her past and sometimes she comes to present. This disorder and sudden going one space to another space lead by stream of consciousness method. It helps to make relation between past and present even future also. Though the experiences are completely different, Clarissa shares a common sense of loss and conclusion, which. She cannot escape fromShe tries to protect herself by powering her thoughts into oppression. All feelings are come back their thoughts to understand present Apter claims that: ‘’The capacity of the present tocontain the past naturally makes the past appear as immediate. Memories become entangled in present thoughts and perception” explaining her situation. By this narration Woolf maps the life women real world that they had experienced in past and face in present. Clarissa is never away from her past despite her different background. She shares some common events that may offer. Description to her sameness is present life. Clarissa has come from her family in youth and lives in London. In Clarissa case, she perceived that she never stay with sally in future. She things herself based on currency of life. Her general decision lies on her like a deep shadow by avoiding capability reside at the present moment. In her thought, Clarissa decides to leave her past and fights to adjust with present life.
Existence / Non Existence
The characterization of Clarissa who designs based on the female figure and the world in which she exists. women stay in two world where they are leaded by their own point of views and there is where they bound to maintain social norms, and values The perplexing existence is real life what they face in real existence Is totally opposite Woolf gives her literary female character who are not exist only but what inside there are also depicted by the form of narration. Clarissa who fights to exist in present time and to live freely. In existence and non-existence time acts as a witness to female existence, by gradually continuing through births and deaths. In her life Clarissa escapes into non-existing by fleeing to the past, to the future through imagination. To same extent, it can be noticed that Clarissa is non-existence in the present.
In depth thought Clarissa struggles to adapt in the present time. Clarissa looks an aged woman who lives in the street and feels in upcoming future. Her consciousness focuses her mind what will be on her living. For instant: “Clarissa… plunged into the very heart of the moment, transfixed it, there-the moment of this junemorning on which was the pressureof all the other mornings”.
