Essays on Mrs. Dalloway

In twentieth century women were still being confined to a limited intellectual area. Being a good housewife was the best role considered for the women. Virginia Woolf as a writer appears as a considerable personality who exposes the unspeakable world of women. In her literary...

We influence the past as much as the past influences us. The present influences our memories of the past as much as they remain alive in our present. Past and present are two different realities that interwine with each other and their relationship is often...

Throughout the ages of literature, a concept that has always been under constant scrutiny is masculinity. Countless novels explore the emphasis stressed on the strong presence of masculinity, or the lack thereof. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, a modernist novel, and W. H. Auden’s The...

It is inevitable that if our world is in upheaval, so too are our thoughts likely to be chaotic and turbulent, experiencing concerns and emotions new to us. However, literary worlds often represent how this turbulence can lead to the invigorating of peoples mindset, with...

“‘I will come,’ said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was,” explains Peter Walsh...

Mrs. Dalloway comments on society by showing the dichotomy between the wealthy and the poor, through the eyes of Miss Kilman. Miss Kilman provides a canvas of thought for the protagonist– Clarissa Dalloway– who thinks of her as a villain, with “hooves” who threatens her...

Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, written in 1925, is set in 1920’s London, England, just after the First World War,. This novel depicts a day in the life of high-class socialite Clarissa Dalloway, who is planning to have a party, and ends with the giving...

“Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens and “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf both take place in London. However, at the same time, they take place in very different worlds. The characters in Oliver Twist are easily separated into good and evil just like all romantic novels....