My presentation is about Technica device in To The lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

1. • Topic : Richness of Technical devices in
Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse”
• Name : Urvi Bhatt
• Paper Name: The Modernist Literature
• Paper No: 9
• Sem : 3
• Roll No: 31
• Enrolment no: PG13101005
• Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University.

2. About Virginia Woolf
• Born on 25th January,
1882
• England’s most
prestigious literary
family
• A precarious balance
of extra-ordinary
success and mental
instability.

3. About To The Lighthouse
• Novel written in 1927
• Landmark of high modernism
• the novel centers on Ramsays
and their visit to the Isle of Skye
in Scotland between 1910 and
1920.
• Includes little dialogue and
almost no action, most of it
written as thoughts and
observations.

4. Woolf ’s literary theory and
experimental Techniques
Stream of Consciousness
Interior Monologue
Free Association

5. Stream of Consciousness
• It is narrative made of
device that seeks
“to depict the
multitudinous thoughts
and feelings which pass
through the mind.”
• Coined for the 1st time
by American
psychologist William
James.

6. Stream of
Consciousness
includes
impression of

7. Interior Monologue
• Rhetorical term that
refers to literary
technique.
• It is a technique of

8. Define Interior Monologue
• “ Interior monologue is then
the technique used in fiction
for representing the psychic
content and process of
character, partly or entirely
unuttered, just as these
process exist at various level
of conscious control before
they are formulated for
deliberate speech.”

9.  Use of Interior Monologue:
 to give the novel its special
character of seeming to be always
within the consciousness of the chief
characters.
 narrator almost disappears
 the point of view overlaps with the
internal thoughts of the characters.

10. Sequence
of Interior
Monologue
Thought
Memories
Feelings

11. Features of Interior Monologue
Verbal expression
Immediate
Internal and External level of narration
No chronological order
No presence of subjective time
Disregards rules of punctuation
No formal logical order

12. The omniscient narrator disappears
and the point of view shifts:
Flashbacks Associations
of ideas impressions

13. Narrators control
• Narrator never lets the
character’s thoughts flow
without control
• Characters are not
interrupted by external
events.
• Use of Parentheses in Lily’s
dialogue

14. Phrases
Parentheses
Semicolon
s
Poetic
Allusive
Emotional
Woolf ’s use of
words are
experimental
(language)
Woolf ’s
unique
devices

15. Free Association
• Controlling the
movement of ‘Stream
of Consciousness’ in
fiction has been an
application of the
principles of
psychological free
association.

16. Importance of free narration
Extended the scope and level of writing
Breaks out the traditional narrative
Joins the incidents of past, present and
future

17. Three factors control the Free Association
Senses
Memory
Imagination

18. Example of Free Association
• Mrs. Ramsay tells a story to
James, of Fisherman's wife.
• Consoles her husband

19. This way the process of the story
telling is contently interspersed with
other elements.
Mrs. Ramsay’s stream of
consciousness is clear, as it is controlled
by the principle of free association
through memory, senses and
imagination.

20. Lily’s S.O.C. while looking at the sea
and thinks about:

21. Conclusion
• Experimented on language, style,
free association, interior
monologue etc.
• Some other devices of writing
skills like using parentheses,
pauses etc.
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