This document is a paper by Aditi Vala on the stream of consciousness technique in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. It provides biographical information about Woolf and discusses her innovative style. Specifically, it examines Woolf's use of stream of consciousness narration to mirror the flowing thoughts of the protagonist Orlando. The paper analyzes how Orlando's consciousness is presented as a collection of fragmented visions and ideas for the reader to interpret. It concludes that Woolf was masterful in her experimental use of stream of consciousness to explore characters' conscious, subconscious, and unconscious minds.

1. ⦿ Name :– ADITI VALA
⦿ BATCH :-2020-2022
⦿ MA SEM :-02
⦿ ROLL NO:- 01
⦿ PAPER NO :– 106 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
: 1900 TO WORLDWAR 2000
⦿ TOPIC :- STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S “ ORLANDO”
⦿ ENROLLMENT NO. :- 3069206420200018
⦿ EMAIL ID :- valaaditi203@gmail.com
⦿ SUBMITTED TO :- S.B.GARDI DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH,MKBU

2. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S “ORLANDO”

3. CONTENT
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❖ About Virginia Woolf
❖ What is Virginia Woolf’s style
❖ Stream of Consciousness
❖ Stream of Consciousness in “ Orlando”
❖ Conclusion

4. ABOUT VIRGINA W00LF :
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⦿ As one of the most prominent
literary figures of the 20th century .
⦿ She is widely admired for her
technical innovations in the novel
, most notably her development
of narrative subjectively .
Works By Virginia Woolf
•Ms. Dalloway (1925)
•To The Lightroom (1927)
•The Voyage Out (1915)
•Orlando (1928)
•The Waves (1931)

5. What is Virginia Woolf’s Style?
Stream of Consciousness
Poetic Presentational Technique
The Formal Use of Silence
As the novel shifts from being a narrative to a more stream of
consciousness style , the sentences became longer and more
intricate in their effort to capture absolutely everything.
› woolf probably intended to mirror the way in which the human mind and
thoughts actually operate:
⦿ Vivid , Picturesque , Colorful , Flamboyant,
⦿ Lucid , Copious, Florid , Colloquy and Fanciful style.

6. Stream of Consciousness
⦿ DEFINITION:
⮚ Is a literary technique used by Richardson, Virginia
Woolf and James Joyce.
⮚ Stream of consciousness is characterized by a flow
of thoughts and images
Virginia Woolf never lets her characters’ thoughts flow
without control , mantains logical and grammatical
organisation

7. Stream of Consciousness
❑ The continous flow of thoughts
,feelings, and memories
❑ Sometimes known as an interior
mmanologue
❑ Shows an individuals ‘s point of view
by giving a written example of the
character’s thought processes
❑ Punctuation is often neglected
❑ Informal language
❑ Long, interconnected sentences

8. Stream of Consciousness
⦿ Woolf’s uniquesness begins with an “attempt to render the flow
and the play of concsiousness adrift in the current of changing
impression.
⮚ …was a phrase used by william James in his principles of
psychology (1890) to describe the unbroken flow of perceptions
, thoughts , and feelings in the waking mind .
⮚ It has since been adopted to describe a narrative method in
modern fiction.
⮚ Long passages of introspection , in which the narrator records in
detail what passes through a character’s awarness , are found
in novelists from Samuel Richardson , through William James’
brothers Henry James , to many novelists of the present era. ( A
Glossary of Literary Terms – M.H. Abrams )

9. Stream of Consciousness in “Orlando “
⦿ Woolf’s stream of consciousness writing mirrors
the thoughts of Orlando , her protagonist.
⦿ Thus , the scenes which occur at the very end
of the novel , where Orlando goes up to her
tree, looks back a dead queen, and heralds
the return of her husband, may be a product
of her imagination .
⦿ In Virginia Woolf’s Orlando , for instance ,we
see a story told in chronological order whose
progression from paragraph to paragraph
appears marked by abrupt changes in
subject matter and sometimes even style.
⦿ The cocept emerges as Orlando ever
changing thoughts are replaced swiftly by
other ideas or opinions.

10. ⦿ Orlando ‘s consciousness resembles a collection of
fragmented visions and thoughts placed together for the
audience to decipher.
Conclusion :
⦿ Virginia Woolf’s individualized and experimental art of
fiction has offered significance fiction but also in literary
creation.
⦿ She is at her best when she is writing her stream of
consciousness novels which deal with the conscious,
subconscious and even unconscios part of her character.

11. Refrence
⦿ M.H.Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York : Harcourt
Brace , 1999) , p.299.
⦿ ^” stream of consciousness – literature”
⦿ "Virginia Woolf's Orlando: The Book as Critic".
www.tetterton.net. Retrieved 7 May 2016.