"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

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In this paper, via examination of Virginia Woolf?s, ?Mrs. Dalloway?, the author looks at societal pressures on people. The author compares the lives of the two main characters in the book, and notes that although they both lead totally different lives, there are many connections between the two of them in terms of how they feel they must conform to what is regarded as the norm in society. The author also compares war with the internal struggles that the characters are fighting. The author contends that Ms. Woolf?s novels centered on, ?silence?- the things that people don?t say.

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?The narrative technique of Woolf?s book gives us a chronological sense not of real time, but of the way thoughts flow through the mind of the character. This is why Woolf?s style is best characterized as ?a stream of consciousness? style. (?Stream of Consciousness.? Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary) Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf?s stream-of-consciousness narration makes clear, simultaneously feels apart from the average individual, in the sense she is quite aware of her own class.?

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