or her own. Reflection produces different results in different people. In Michael Cunningham’s novel, The Hours, the characters Clarissa Dalloway and Laura Brown share similarities in the way that they often self reflect on their life. However, despite their shared self-reflective tendencies, they live significantly contrasting lifestyles, where Clarissa Dalloway is a lesbian mother who is quite pleased with the life she has, while Laura Brown is the traditional “cookie-cutter” mother, who feels her
of the novel, Mrs Dalloway has already expressed the strong necessity of solitude in one's life and the importance of privacy and independence in a marriage: “And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa...for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect--something, after all, priceless.” (93) For Mrs Dalloway, solitude is
as Literature Itself”: Intermediated Moves from Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours, by Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, she analyzes the character’s roles and themes present in both the novel and the movie, The Hours. In The Hours, by Michael Cunningham, Laura Brown’s story begins in 1949, in the suburbs of Los Angeles, on the birthday of her war-hero husband, Dan. They have a beautiful son, Richie, and are expecting their second child soon. Clarissa Dalloway, who’s real name, is Clarissa Vaughn, lives in the
A Clockwork Orange and Mrs. Dalloway: The Representation of Physicians and Government Oppression in the British Empire A Clockwork Orange and Mrs. Dalloway are both century novels in which focus on protagonists who’s lives are shaped by their place in society and how they come to encounter physicians who change their lives in not necessarily good ways. Although the protagonists play a significant role in the development of the stories the doctors are the main focus’ in which drive the stories to
Mrs. Dalloway and The Delicate Balance of Dualism Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre, which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death. Not merely as obedience, but as defiance, not just as a trial for severance, but as a trial for communication, Virginia Woolf’s ‘death’ in the novel; Mrs Dalloway embraces the utterly different two connotations inside of
However, she drops her pencil and does not help the moth. The next day, she sees the moth that is still struggling. It is time for her to make a decision whether to help the moth escape from the room or not. This story is based on the examination and analysis of the moth that she saw in her