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Structural
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Virginia Woolf
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Laura
Brown
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Clarissa Dalloway
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1941
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1923
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1950’s
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1990’s New York
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Link between three
stories:
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‘Mrs
Dalloway’
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Laura’s son
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Parallels between
Virginia and Richard
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Quotations from Virginia
Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’
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Language features
of text
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Mrs Woolf chapters |
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Use of the present tense in
the Prologue. |
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Use of prose as opposed to
dialogue. |
Describes events and tells
the reader rather than inviting the reader into the
interaction of characters. |
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Contrast Leonard and
Virginia’s relationship with Laura and Dan’s relationship |
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Significance of the bird that
Angelica finds. P.116 |
Foreshadows Virginia’s
suicide and the distress of her family. |
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Significance of Virginia’s
flight to the railway station p.172 |
Desire to escape – to London;
from herself; from life |
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Purpose of the final Mrs
Woolf chapter? P. 209 - 211 |
Transference of herself to
Clarissa. Artificial optimism. |
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Mrs Dalloway chapters |
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Chapter title, Mrs
Dalloway, refers to the present not the classic Novel.
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Deliberately unsettling
forcing the reader to mentally adjust to new context and
name as a nickname. |
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Compare pages 9 – 18 with the
opening chapter of Woolf’s novel.
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In – joke p. 50 Meryl Streep
is in the movie.
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Emphasis on dialogue in
conversation with Richard p. 59 - 68 |
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Clarissa’s reflection p. 90 –
98
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Purpose of using Louis as a
source of tension? p. 123 - 139 |
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Purpose of the character Mary
Krull and Clarissa’s resentment? p. 155 - 162 |
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Sally and Carissa’s
achievement? P. 185
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Development of the use of
flowers through the chapters from the reference in Woolf’s
first sentence in her novel. |
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What does Richard mean, “But
there are still the hours, aren’t there?” p.197 Relevance to
the title? |
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Composer’s purpose with final
chapter? p.217 – 226
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Why does Cunningham end with
“Mrs Dalloway” as the final chapter?
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Mrs Brown chapters |
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Integration of Woolf’s novel
into the Mrs Brown chapters.
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Mrs Brown’s detachment from
Ritchie: description
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Symbolism of the making of
the cake
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Catharsis: the hotel room
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Connections between Ritchie,
the child, and Richard, the man.
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