1. Virginia Woolf was interested in depicting the complex inner thoughts and memories of characters through techniques like stream of consciousness and shifting between past and present. 2. In Mrs. Dalloway, she connects the characters of Clarissa and Septimus through their similar sensitivity and reliance on partners, though their stories do not directly intersect until Septimus' death is announced at Clarissa's party. 3. As utopian visions of the future declined, dystopian novels emerged depicting perfect but tyrannical or oppressive societies as a warning against the misuse of technology and unchecked modernity.