Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf Essay, Research Paper
With a comparison to Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus warren smith. These citizens grow up under the same social institutions and although classes are drawn up on wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the names of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa and Septimus, share the quality of communicating through actions, not words, and perceiving death as “defiance.” Through these basic beliefs and mannerisms, Clarissa and Septimus, although never meeting, portray each other in their thoughts and actions. feels death and sorrow all around her. She consistently sees routine and habit around her but seems discontented Clarissa, she was now, “…Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any inside Mrs. Dalloway’s soul, lies her belief character, the side that she never reveals. Clarissa expresses her belief in reincarnation. That her inner-communicating self, if not revealed in this body, may be revealed in the next. The belief that her? that everything will work out, eventually. Mrs. Dalloway before the party remarks that, ‘If it were now to die, ’twere now be most happy.’”(p. 184) Clarissa portrays her sense of happiness as something not monstrumental or grandiose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy in throwing a party. Clarissa has friends. Her parties are to unite the people, who would otherwise never speak to each other. Clarissa communicates ycan, “say things you couldn’t say anyhow else.” She can her…” Clarissa Dalloway has a sense of optimism mixed with despair, in this she defines her character. sorrow in living within his society. Septimus sees beauty in small inanimate things that surround him. Beauty can be seen as a plane that writes in the sky, deciphered but which signifies beauty. Subconsciously, Septimus reveals his need to be nurtured, “..signalling their intention to Frankenstein, Septimus pulls away from society when he falls ill and has trouble dealing with reality. Septimus and Clarissa in this manner are very similar. Septimus feels frightened from the reality around him, “He began to open his eyes, to see whether a gramophone was really there. But real things were too exciting. He must be cautious. He would not go mad.”(p. 142) Clarissa pulls away from individuality when she marries Richard and becomes ? He knew everything!”(p. 140) Septimus’ truth was that, goodness of humanity under the cold, hard shell that society, portrays. Septimus believes in nature, love and goodness; but these are not the qualities of reality, they are the antithesis. For Septimus knows of war, death and destruction; he knows that society will not change and that he cannot live in a world that can be so constricting. Septimus takes a leap of faith and ends all his suffering in this unforgiving world; individuality, Septimus and Clarissa recede into the depths of normality. Clarissa accepts this recession, from having a dream to being merely Mrs. Dalloway. However, Septimus does not, this constriction and uniformity propels Septimus out of his bedroom window. Althought they differ in their response to this uniformity, the truth remains that they are both dissatisfied. Their dissatisfaction emanates from society closing the doors to