Mrs. Dalloway
(Virginia Woolf)
Write your abstract here. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf ? For there she was?.? Virginia Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway, in the party, celebrating life, bringing together people to an ?Ardenic? party, having conquered her apprehensions, disillusions and disenchantment with abysmal life. The last sentence of Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway is a masterpiece of assertion in the face of failure, existence against the feeling of absurdity of life. But it is not an uncomplicated celebration. It is a celebration which reverberates with death; a celebration with an acute understanding of pathos. Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party the whole day, buys flowers herself, but is all the time aware of the complications of the life she is going to celebrate in her party. Her image of the ?perfect hostess?, seen as a pretence by Peter Walsh is not as stable as she would like to think it to be. Walking through a park in London, she is a common woman caught in her past, remembering her Bourton days with Peter & Sally, observing an air-plane skywriting, hearing the Big Ben?s ?ominous? chimes. At home, she is troubled by her ?narrow bed?, lack of ?ability? to have more children beyond her only daughter, anxious about her drying female sexual energies, worried about her daughter and her relationship with a middle-class teacher- Miss Kilman and troubled by the incomplete nature of her life with her long time partner/ soul mate paying her a visit reminding her of the ?lack? she tries to run from. All these and perhaps many other reasons make her look outside the window, feel like throwing herself out, but the old woman visible from the window, across the road, turning the light off, going to bed- ?continuing to exist?, stops her from taking the final ?plunge?. Septimus Warren Smith had ?killed? himself. She heard about this ?anonymous man? in her party amid her celebrations. She thought about him, did not pity him though. He had thrown it away, he had chosen to. She had walked the terrace at Bourton, thought it was all meaningless, difficult when ?your parents give it into your hands, this life to be lived..? But she had resisted. She had chosen to. An analysis of Clarissa Dalloway in the party is intimately linked to all the events of the day and the ?unrelated relatedness? of Septimus? experiences and death. It is a magnificent feta achieved by Woolf. She portrays the tension of life , of being, beautifully and with complete understanding of the ?inner mind?, aware of all the complexities and difficulties, she is capable of celebrating it in Clarissa?s party. Woolf herself found walking over the ?pavement over an abyss? difficult, but she makes Clarissa do it and cross over. Thus in the end we have- ?For there she was.?- Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway, inspite of and with, everything difficult and destabilizing moving on with her life!!
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