Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf

Period of time

• Roaring Twenties
  
• Welfare and prosperity
• Position of women in society

Her life

• British writer and feminist
  
• Bloomsburygroup
  
• Leonard Woolf
  
• Committed suicide on March 28, 1941
  

Characters

• Clarissa Dalloway
  
• Spetimus Warren Smith
  
• Peter Walsh
  
• Sally Seton
  
• Richard Dalloway
  

Storyline

• Clarissa Dalloway
  
• Psychiatrist Sir William Bradshaw
  
• Psychological problems
  
• Septimus committed suicide
  

Passage

Video

How does Clarissa's perspective on death change in the story?

How did Septimus die?

1. He tripped off the curb
2. He died because of cholera
3. He died in a car accident
4. He committed suicide

Which character do you find most interesting?

Clarissa

Septimus

Sally

Peter

Influence

• Modernism
  
• Stream of consciousness
  
• Flashbacks
  
• Criticism on society
  
• “For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? Over twenty,--one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.”