"The Waves"

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Of Virginia Woolf's eight major novels, "The Waves" is by far the most intricate, structurally and thematically. Virginia Woolf wanted to create a new form of fiction, a new breed of expression. The paper explains how "The Waves" accomplishes this feat on many levels, in several different ways. The paper shows how Woolf's unconventional use of characterization, symbolism, narrative form and structure, all contribute to the development of a new and innovative style which achieves the author's desired results effectively.

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"In The Waves, Woolf uses her characters for structure; each is a thread, carefully intertwined to bind the novel together although not so much through their actions as through their reactions to their own perceptions of what surrounds and affects them. While Jinny, Susan, Rhoda, Bernard, Louis, and Neville provide a definite form, or structure, each searches for his / her individual structure, his / her own version or perception of "truth", of "fact", of "reality". This search in itself is the structure of The Waves - we follow the six from their first experiences in the search of self and the search for reality, and follow them as they develop, find their individuality, create their own form of reality based on their individual traits, and then realize their unity in a multifaceted reality."

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