Mrs.Dalloway is one of the famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is perceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are the two pr...Mrs.Dalloway is one of the famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is perceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are the two protagonists in this novel.From analyzing the relationship of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith in terms of the meaning of life and death,this thesis aims to explore the author's and the protagonists' inner conflicts and the significance of life and death.展开更多
Mrs.Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are two famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is conceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Mrs.Ramsay are the t...Mrs.Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are two famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is conceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Mrs.Ramsay are the two female protagonists in the two novels.From analyzing the similarities in terms of personality and psychology by using feminism as the theoretical basis,this thesis aims to explore the author's and the protagonists'paradoxical psychology-inner hope versus reality,and to help women liberate from the patriarchal society.展开更多
Mrs.Dalloway has two stories about the same woman.Mrs.Dalloway is her social self,busy with her party,seemingly happy but with some hidden problems.The individual self as Clarissa is lost in deep thought of her true s...Mrs.Dalloway has two stories about the same woman.Mrs.Dalloway is her social self,busy with her party,seemingly happy but with some hidden problems.The individual self as Clarissa is lost in deep thought of her true self.The textual analysis will apply Lacan's theory of name-of-the-father or symbolic order to explore the causes of Clarissa's problematic social self.It concludes that the protagonist begins the process of self-discovery by thinking about and talking with her close friends,trying to dig out her individual self which is suppressed by social self.展开更多
As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in or...As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in order to explore the ethical thinking embodied in Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway,exploring those ethical connotations usually ignored by former critics and scholars.展开更多
Virginia Woolf is one of the foremost modernists.She experiments feminism in her Mrs Dalloway.This paper will analyze this novel from the three pairs of relationships Lady Dalloway built with representatives of patria...Virginia Woolf is one of the foremost modernists.She experiments feminism in her Mrs Dalloway.This paper will analyze this novel from the three pairs of relationships Lady Dalloway built with representatives of patriarchal society,including men and women.展开更多
Mrs. Dalloway depicts a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway in post WWI world. There is a subplot of Septimus accompanying the main plot of Clarissa Dalloway. Septimus, the second most important character...Mrs. Dalloway depicts a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway in post WWI world. There is a subplot of Septimus accompanying the main plot of Clarissa Dalloway. Septimus, the second most important character is often compared with the heroine Clarissa Dalloway. There is always a controversial discussion about the relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus, although they never meet each other in the novel. By an in-depth exploration of the two characters’appearances, actions, inner thoughts from psychological perspective and by a study of the structure of the narrative concerning the plots of the two characters, it is reasonable to consider Septimus as the dark double of Clarissa Dalloway.展开更多
The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fictio...The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fiction,Mrs.Dalloway.Through the deconstruction of the previous work,the reality and history are re-defined by The Hours.展开更多
The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glas...The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glass' scores and the well-designed settings. This paper focuses on Glass' scores and analyzes its connection with other elements, reflection of those people and coherence of the movie.展开更多
Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portray...Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portraying the one day detailed life.Through intensive text reading and based on Freud's theory of personality structure, this paper intends to analyze Clarissa's unbalanced personality structure: namely her repressed id, obscured ego, and inflated superego, to demonstrate Clarissa's character and personality more clearly.展开更多
文摘Mrs.Dalloway is one of the famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is perceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are the two protagonists in this novel.From analyzing the relationship of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith in terms of the meaning of life and death,this thesis aims to explore the author's and the protagonists' inner conflicts and the significance of life and death.
文摘Mrs.Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are two famous novels written by Virginia Woolf,who is conceived as one of the famous feminist writers in the history of English literature.Clarissa Dalloway and Mrs.Ramsay are the two female protagonists in the two novels.From analyzing the similarities in terms of personality and psychology by using feminism as the theoretical basis,this thesis aims to explore the author's and the protagonists'paradoxical psychology-inner hope versus reality,and to help women liberate from the patriarchal society.
文摘Mrs.Dalloway has two stories about the same woman.Mrs.Dalloway is her social self,busy with her party,seemingly happy but with some hidden problems.The individual self as Clarissa is lost in deep thought of her true self.The textual analysis will apply Lacan's theory of name-of-the-father or symbolic order to explore the causes of Clarissa's problematic social self.It concludes that the protagonist begins the process of self-discovery by thinking about and talking with her close friends,trying to dig out her individual self which is suppressed by social self.
文摘As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in order to explore the ethical thinking embodied in Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway,exploring those ethical connotations usually ignored by former critics and scholars.
文摘Virginia Woolf is one of the foremost modernists.She experiments feminism in her Mrs Dalloway.This paper will analyze this novel from the three pairs of relationships Lady Dalloway built with representatives of patriarchal society,including men and women.
文摘Mrs. Dalloway depicts a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway in post WWI world. There is a subplot of Septimus accompanying the main plot of Clarissa Dalloway. Septimus, the second most important character is often compared with the heroine Clarissa Dalloway. There is always a controversial discussion about the relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus, although they never meet each other in the novel. By an in-depth exploration of the two characters’appearances, actions, inner thoughts from psychological perspective and by a study of the structure of the narrative concerning the plots of the two characters, it is reasonable to consider Septimus as the dark double of Clarissa Dalloway.
文摘The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fiction,Mrs.Dalloway.Through the deconstruction of the previous work,the reality and history are re-defined by The Hours.
文摘The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glass' scores and the well-designed settings. This paper focuses on Glass' scores and analyzes its connection with other elements, reflection of those people and coherence of the movie.
文摘Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portraying the one day detailed life.Through intensive text reading and based on Freud's theory of personality structure, this paper intends to analyze Clarissa's unbalanced personality structure: namely her repressed id, obscured ego, and inflated superego, to demonstrate Clarissa's character and personality more clearly.
