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Themes, Motifs, Symbols
Mrs Dalloway
Themes
Communication vs Privacy Realization Fear of Death Oppression Sanity vs Insanity (Depression)
Themes – Communication vs Privacy
Especially Clarissa and Septimus Struggle to find the balance Parties vs Inner World of Clarissa Inner world : fragmented
Themes - Realization
WWI – The invincible British Empire? Falsified Those who still believe that : Aunt
Helena, Lady Bruton, Richard OLD!!!
Clarissa, Peter, Septimus traditions collapsed
Richard wants to write about British Military Family THE PAST!!!
Themes – Fear of Death
Clarissa, Septimus, Peter... Clarissa goes paranoid sometimes praises death through Shakespeare «Fear no more the heat o’ the sun /
Nor the furious winter’s rages.» (Cymbeline)
seen a lot of deaths, family members
thinks living is dangerous
Themes - Oppression
Clarissa and Septimus, social oppression
Religion, science, social traditions Miss Kilman – Religious oppression –
wants to convert everyone, kill Clarissa (for a moment)
Sir William – Scientific oppression – his conception of the world never to be challenged
Patriarchal English Society
Themes Sanity vs Insanity Clarissa vs Septimus
Motifs
Time Doubling Shakespeare
Motifs - Time
Very important motif Big Ben (symbol) – sounds – death
any moment Aging – change The woman in Regent’s Park
Humans know no boundaries of time Singls like eternally
Time is circular
Motifs - Shakespeare
Hopeful way of addressing death
Symbols
The Prime Minister – old ways Peter’s pocket knife - indecisiveness Old Woman in the Window – privacy,
loneliness, independence