Ideas and Topics for Papers
VII TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Look carefully at the opening pages of the story and discuss the nature of the “analytical” faculty. 2. Discuss the […]
Month: December 2008
Related Titles and Adaptations
William Legrand, the central character in “The Gold Bug,” shares some characteristics with Poe’s famous amateur sleuth, Auguste Dupin. Like Dupin, he alternates between gloomy […]
Introduction
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. […]
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 in London, England. She was the daughter of Leslie Stephen, an eminent man of letters, and Julia Prinsep Jackson […]
Plot Summary
A Section 1 Mrs. Dalloway begins with a sentence that is also its first paragraph: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” The […]
Characters
A Dr. Bradshaw See Sir William Bradshaw B Sir William Bradshaw While Dr. Bradshaw, unlike Dr. Holmes, immediately grasps the gravity and nature of Septimus’s […]
Themes
A Consciousness Although it is difficult to imagine, the novel is a relatively new literary form. Poetry and drama (plays), for example, have a much […]
Construction
A Narration and Point of View From the very first sentence, Mrs. Dalloway shows the secure meshing of a third person (external) narrator’s point of […]
Historical Perspective
A The New Modern Era The 19th century ushered in developments that profoundly changed European society. Mercantilism and industrialism created a powerful new class. The […]