literature

1. Mrs Dalloway

2.  Communication vs Privacy
 Realization
 Fear of Death
 Oppression
 Sanity vs Insanity (Depression)

3.  EspeciallyClarissa and Septimus
 Struggle to find the balance
 Parties vs InnerWorld of Clarissa
 Inner world : fragmented

4.  WWI –The invincible British Empire?
 Falsified
 Those who still believe that : Aunt Helena,
Lady Bruton, Richard  OLD!!!
 Clarissa, Peter, Septimus  traditions
collapsed
 Richard  wants to write about British
Military Family THE PAST!!!

5.  Clarissa, Septimus, Peter...
 Clarissa  goes paranoid sometimes
  praises death through Shakespeare
 «Fear no more the heat o’ the sun / Nor the
furious winter’s rages.» (Cymbeline)
  seen a lot of deaths, family members
  thinks living is dangerous

6.  Clarissa and Septimus, social oppression
 Religion, science, social traditions
 Miss Kilman – Religious oppression – wants to
convert everyone, kill Clarissa (for a moment)
 SirWilliam – Scientific oppression – his
conception of the world  never to be
challenged
 Patriarchal English Society

7.  Clarissa vs Septimus

8.  Time
 Doubling
 Shakespeare

9.  Very important motif
 Big Ben (symbol) – sounds – death any
moment
 Aging – change
 The woman in Regent’s Park
 Humans know no boundaries of time
 Singls like eternally
 Time is circular

10.  Hopeful way of addressing death

11.  The Prime Minister – old ways
 Peter’s pocket knife - indecisiveness
 OldWoman in theWindow – privacy,
loneliness, independence