The document summarizes and compares Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and the 1997 film adaptation directed by Marlene Gorris. The novel follows Clarissa Dalloway through a single day in post-World War I London as she prepares for a party. The film retains this basic plot but adds flashbacks and voiceovers to portray Clarissa's inner thoughts and emotions. Both works explore Clarissa's choices and reflections on the past. While the film uses some of Woolf's modernist techniques, it takes a more conventional narrative approach than the novel and lacks its innovative aspects.

1. VIRGINIAWOOLF'S
MRS. DALLOWAY
Novel versus Movie

2. ◦ Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's novel, was released in 1925,
in the midst of the Modernist It is often regarded as Woolf's
greatest autobiographical work, with several of her
thought's intertwined among the characters.
◦ The movie was set in 1997 and it was directed by Marlene
Gorris together with stars including, Michael Kitchen,
Vanessa Redgrave also Natasha McElhon film is all based on
the 1925 novel by Virginia Wod day in the life Dalloway,
wife of a rich politician in London, moves constantly the
present and the past that is in the characters.

3. Over view
◦ Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged lady who
was prepared to give a lavish party one
London evening. As the novel develops,
she begins to reflect about her past and
consider her life choices, notably the
choice on whom to wed.
◦ The movie "Mis. Dalloway" is about a day
of connection between the ladies who is as
well as the other woman who could have
been. The protagonist of the film laments
that she is known as "Mrs. Dalloway" by
nearly everyone.

4. Differences
◦ The book is primarily set in Clarissa's head, occasional
forays into other people's brains, Film is incapable of
doing so, but "Mrs, Dalloway" employs voice over
narration and then let us to hear Clarissa's emotions,
which she never, ever shares with anyone else.
◦ While the film progresses through Clarissa's day, there
are flashbacks to long-ago days when young Peter was
dating young Clarissa, and possibly young Sally was
dating her as well, though the film is more cagy about
it than the book. Woolf, on the other hand, is far too
astute to leave Peter and Sally in the happy memories
They both show up on this particular day. The story's
undertone is suicide. Woolf wonders what function
Clarissa and Septum's decisions to continue living lives
they are through serve. The omnipresence of sharp
fence is on which one may be impaled is a hidden motif
all through the film.

5. Example
◦ “Mrs. Dalloway is a brilliantly crafted and
played movie version of Virginia Woolf's book.
Vanessa Redgrave delivers a superb portrayal
as Clarissa Dalloway, an emotionally repressed
top woman.” Sally nearly sympathizes with
Clarissa's personal decisions in the film, while
in the novel, Sally refers to Clarissa as a
hypocrite.

6. ◦ London in the book shows a June that is
hot, steamy, warm and with the excitement
of the shinny newness of 1920s, post-war
London, all of which is lost in the empty
shots of west London which must have
been painstakingly expensive to rent for a
low-budget, esoteric movie and
occasionally sweaty looking actors on
bright park benches.

7. transtextual
character
◦ Regardless that both the film and the text include both texts mirror
Woolf’s comments from her 1922 diary : “ planned to write death but
life come bursting in as usual “. Both actors in their respective context,
allowing them to reflect on the atrocities war , the frustration of
untapped potential that is met in middle age, the emotional resonance
of lost love, the challenges of intimate relations, race, sexuality, as well
as gender .
◦ Mrs. Dalloway tries to make a narration of the characters life in less
than 24 hours.
◦ The film takes many of the themes and also the images that have been
presented in the novel then they are refashioned. In film, the film
director tends to employ creativechoices for instance the use of
internal dialogues so as to make some more sense in the long
and seeming nothingness of the actual plot of the film. Gorris
attempts to establish the proper tone balance between
politeness and expressing emotion. In both Mrs. Dalloway's
storytelling approach is stream of thought. She narrates the tale
of one day in Mrs. Dalloway's life via her ideas, emotions, and
experiences, as well as others she meets. She does away with the
authority figure who informs readers what everything means.

8. Conclusion
◦ This brief discussion has shown that the
strategies used to translate modern
literary texts to the cinema consolidated
a tendency towards more conventional
narratives on screen, as they did not
focus on the exploration of cinematic
possibilities to deal with Woolf’s
narrative projects. They are conceived as
artistically constructed narrative projects
by the social prestige of the source texts,
but they do not emphasize their
innovative aspects, thus lacking an
impact in the cinematographic system.
As a result, we may observe an
ambivalent position of these texts in
relation to their critical reception, since
they are products of interpretations and
evidence of cultural and temporal
transfer.

9. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
PRECIOUS TIME
Mubeen Sami